Martin Luther on the Blessed Virgin Mary...


Original source for the final quote we'll be using here: Luther, Martin. Luther's Works, Weimar Edition., trans. J. Pelikan. St Louis, Missouri: Concordia, 1957. Volume 4, p. 694.


Secondary source for all quotes generally: Daniel J. Daou, Rev. Father Antoine Bakh, Joseph Bakhos. Building on a Solid Foundation: Examining Seven Topics of the Catholic Faith. Encinitas, California: The Missionaries of Faith Foundation, 2003.


Page 209 of our secondary source:


"Mary is the Mother of Jesus and the Mother of all of us (Martin Luther, Sermon, Christmas, 1529)."


"The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart (Martin Luther: Sermon, September 1, 1522)."


Note: It is the following that carries a specific foot note!


"But the other conception, namely the infusion of the soul, it is piously and suitably believed was without any sin, so that while the soul was being infused, she [the Blessed Virgin Mary] would at the same time be cleansed from original sin and adorned with the gifts of God to receive the holy soul thus infused."