The Church Fathers contrast Mary's obedience

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at the Annunciation with Eve's disobedience. Mary by Her obedience became the cause of the Salvation, while Eve by her disobedience became the cause of death. St. Irenaeus teaches "As she (Eve) who had Adam as her husband, but was nevertheless a virgin, was disobedient, and thereby became the cause of death to herself and to the whole of mankind, so also Mary, who has a pre-ordained husband, and was still a virgin, be Her obedience became a cause of Her own salvation and the salvation of the whole buy phone number list human race" (Adv. Haer. III 22, 4; cf. V 19, 1). St. Jerome says "By a woman the whole world was saved" (cf. Tertullian, De carne Christi 17).

As Pope Pius XII says in the Encyclical Mystici Coporis in 1943, She "offered Him on Golgotha to the Eternal Father together with the holocaust of Her maternal rights and Her motherly love like a new Eve for all children of Adam." (D 2291). As "the New Eve," She is, as the same Pope declares, in the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus in 1950 "the sublime associate of our Redeemer" (cf. D. 3031).