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True devotion to Mary.

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From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife
Date: 20071201
Author:Neuhaus, Richard John

In his classic work Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams asserts, only half whimsically, that the twelfth-century Cathedral of Chartres was, in all its details, built at the direction of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for it is her house above all others. To be sure, the sculpture and the glass of unprecedented beauty depict the fullness of salvation history culminating in the gospel story, but the culmination of the culmination is Our Lady of Chartres, to whom the cathedral is dedicated.

"Had the Church controlled her," writes Adams, "the Virgin would perhaps have remained ...

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