“The Lady of All Nations” refers to various visions of Mary to Ida Peerdeman, a Dutch woman, between 1945 to 1959. Mark Miravalle and many other Roman Catholics are advocates of the messages of this purported locutions. The visions and the teachings of Mary therein are recorded in the volume The Messages of The Lady of All Nations (rev ed.; St. Louis: Our Lady of All Nations Foundation, 1999). As the preface correctly notes, “The dogma of Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate holds a central place in the messages of the Lady of All Nations” (p. 17). Again, it affords a great opportunity to see the spiritual and theological dangers of Roman Catholic Mariology, as well as a great contrast between the high view of Mary within Roman Catholicism with the role and status of the prophet Joseph Smith in Latter-day Saint theology and piety (see, for example, Praise to the Man vs. Marian Prayers and Hymns). Do note that this is an appoved apparition, similar to that of Fatima:
30th Message (April 1, 1951)
Now I will explain something to you again; listen carefully. Try to understand what this message means. I am standing before my head, hands and feet as of a human being: my body as of the Spirit. Why am I like this? My body has been taken up, like the Son. Now I am standing in sacrifice before the Cross. For I suffered with my Son spiritually and, above all, bodily. This will become a much contested dogma . . . Child, just as He suffered, so did I suffer as the Mother of the Son of Man. Repeat this correctly. (p. 95)
31st Message (April 15, 1951)
Once again I say: the Son came into the world as the Redeemer of humanity. The work of redemption was the Cross. He was sent by the Father. Now, however, the Father and the Son wants to send the Lady throughout the whole world . . . the world needs the Cross again. The Lady, however, stands as the Coredemptrix and Advocate before the Cross. (pp. 97-98)
33rd Message (May 31, 1951)
I stand here and come to tell you that I wish to be Mary, the Lady of All Nations. Look carefully. I am standing before the Cross of the Redeemer. My head, hands, and feet as of a human being, as of the Son of Man; the body as of the Spirit. I have firmly placed my feet upon the globe, for in this time the Father and the Son wants to bring me into this world as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate. This will be the new and final Marian dogma. (pp. 101-2)
35th Message (August 15, 1951)
“Humanity is entrusted to the Mother. For the Son said: ‘Woman, behold your son; son, behold your mother’—therefore Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate. Tell this to your theologians. Say that I wish to be and shall be the Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.” (p. 106)
41st Message (April 6, 1952)
Tell the following to the theologians: at the sacrifice of the Cross came ‘the Lady’. The Son said to His Mother, ‘Woman, behold your son.’ Thus the change came about at the sacrifice of the Cross. The Lord and Creator chose Miriam, or Mary, from among all women to become the Mother of His Divine Son. At the sacrifice of the Cross she became ‘the Lady’, the Coredemptrix and Mediatrix. This was announced by the Son while He was returning to the Father. This is why I am bringing these new words in this time, and saying: I am the Lady of All Nations, who once was Mary. Tell this to your theologians. This is what these words mean for the theologians. (p. 121)
42nd Message (June 15, 1952)
At the departure of the Lord Jesus Christ coredemption first began. It was not until the departure of the Lord Jesus Christ that she became the Mediatrix and Advocate. At the departure of the Lord Jesus Christ He gave the nations the Lady of All Nations. (p. 123)
47th Message (October 11, 1953)
The Lord is the Redeemer of all nations. Mary, the Mother, was chosen from the beginning as Coredemptrix. She became Coredemptrix at the departure of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Father. She became Mediatrix and Advocate for all nations . . . Because Mary was destined as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate, she comes now in this time as the Lady of All Nations. Because Mary is given the title ‘Lady of All Nations’, she has come under this title to different places, to different countries. (p. 138)
49th Message (April 4, 1954)
Because Mary is Coredemptrix, she is also Mediatrix, she is also Advocate. Not only because she is the Mother of the Lord Jesus Christ, but—and mark this well—because she is the Immaculate Conception. (p. 142)
The Lady was Chosen. She was also to be present when the Holy Spirit was received. The Holy Spirit had to come over the Apostles . . . For this reason, the Lord wanted His Mother to be present there. His Mother, the Lady of All Nations, at the departure of her Son became the Lady of All Nations, the Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate in the presence of one Apostle, one theologian as witness. Or he had to care or the Mother. She had to care for her Apostles. (pp. 142-43)
Such are just representative of the theology of this apparitions. Interestingly, there are some Christological issues, even from a Roman Catholic perspective, such as the apparitions teaching Modalism, not Trinitarianism, at times. For instance, in the 51st message, dated May 31, 1955, the Father, Son, and Spirit are presented as being the same person:
Peoples, do not let yourselves be taken in by the false prophets; listen only to Him, to God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. For the same Father is the same Son. The same Father and Son is the same Holy Spirit. (p. 151, emphasis added).
Such should highlight the importance of having a proper understanding of Mariology, something one finds within Latter-day Saint theology but not Roman Catholic dogma and doctrine.
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