"The world is indebted to a woman for the coming of the Man who is God; Christianity is spread and continued in the world by women. I would be so bold as to say again that if this has always been an undeniable fact, fully testified to by history, in all countries and at all times from that of Jesus Christ to our own day, then the most decisive influence in favor of Christianity in the present era is that of women; the most fruitful apostolate and most powerful strength of Christ's Church on earth is in the hands of Catholic women. When the appalling corruption of the world reached its peak, Mary appeared and gave Jesus, the Savior of that corrupted world, to us. Now, the Christian woman, imitator of the virtues of the Virgin of Nazareth, and united to her by prayer and the virtues, brings the good news of example to the world, and with her untiring apostolate sustains the doctrine and value of the Gospel in a paganized society. It is, as Bossuet says, 'This order will never change, for having wanted to give us Christ Jesus through the Blessed Virgin, God never regrets his gifts."