mediatrix

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  1. A female mediator. The good countess spoke somewhat of your desire of letters; but I am afraid she is not a proper mediatrix to those persons; but I counsel in the dark. Donne, Letters, xxvi.

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  • And understanding then, with a calm vouchsafed by Elliot as himself and more than himself, as circumstantial conduit, meant to show her what she was meant to see, to be: angel for the dead, the queen of angels; to accept for and with them, mediatrix, what death is meant to be. —  Omni: July 1994
  • I know a man who is married to a Jewish woman, who has a lovely relationship with his Jewish in-laws, who loves his half-Jewish children, who loves his Jewish Savior and Mary, his Jewish mediatrix of all graces, but thinks the Holocaust numbers are a bit inflated. —  Catholic and Enjoying It!
  • The salvation of Her every child from eternal damnation in hell is something that directly concerns the Mother and mediatrix of salvation. —  Latest Articles
  • In that moment in Calvary, her role as a co-mediatrix of her Son, with Whom she shared so much pain, had been clearly defined. —  Bisaya Bloggers
  • After Our Lady of the Rosary, the Association recognizes and honors as its mediatrix before God, the illustrious Virgin and Martyr, St. Philomena, named by the Sovereign Pontiff, protectress of the Living Rosary. —  St Blogs Catholic Blogs
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  1. from Late Latin mediatrix, feminine of mediator, a mediator: see mediator.
 

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