Proposal For Dogmatic Definition
In 1896, French Jesuit priest René-Marie de la Brosse interpreted Pope Leo XIII's papal encyclical Octobri Mense as teaching that all graces from Jesus Christ are imparted through Mary. Brosse proposed that the pontiff should make a dogmatic definition about the role of Mary in the distribution of all graces, but did not require that it be in the form of declaring her to be the mediatrix of all graces.
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