To understand more deeply the fabric of this book on the Virgin more compelling reason for the author should be read in light of the last chapter, the cult of Mary, where the doctrine is celebration and life. For all this study aims to answer a phenomenon spread across the width of the geography, widespread throughout history and rooted in the hearts of the faithful the indispensable place of the Mother of God in the devotion of the people, who devote cathedrals, basilicas, sanctuaries and hermitages and become places of pilgrimage, singing their praises in songs and poems, which sculpt their images in every material imaginable and all styles ... What sense does this ecclesial and cultural phenomenon? How does that mercy connects the fruit of the Spirit's action in the Church, in the radical following of Jesus Christ? Unravelling the mystery, find the link of Mary and Christian in the Church is the reason for all the chapters. Patiently, the author goes reeling Marian wealth of Scripture from the first design of the book of Genesis to Revelation the gleaming paint to penetrate then in the rich mosaic of the doctrine of the Fathers. These first two parts, without a previous system that pigeonhole, but simply sinking in waters rich biblical and patristic open unsuspected horizons for the reader, who later, in line with the tradition of the Church is identified, without exhausting systematic chapters parte.La the third figure of Mary, which emerges from seemingly terse texts of Sacred Scripture, goes through a period of reflection in the Church, first, in line with the Christological controversies spur to Mariology and nut to Christology, leading to the confession of faith in the Theotokos, ever virgin, and later, influenced the development of the anthropological implications of Soteriology, illuminate both the association of Mary to the redemption of Christ as the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption into heaven. As a driver must not be forgotten in this process the strength of Marian devotion and religiosity. At the end of this whole journey, to impose this question: distorts the patristic, magisterial and theological image of the Servant of the Lord, give us the scriptures? Respond to this question has a strong ecumenical interest, as the Reformed doctrine generally considers the development of theological and Catholic teaching on the Mother of Jesus as one of the key challenges for ecumenism. Today, interfaith dialogues also represent an advance in the understanding of the figure of Mary as the manifesto highlights Dombes group. The new edition, along with improvements typographic means updating the bibliographical apparatus, which is reflected in the abundance of new authors consulted, resulting in different shades wealth provided in relation to the exegesis of sacred texts Scripture and Tradition of the Church and in general throughout Mariology. But the focus is where the book is richer when compared to the previous edition. Not that the author will change substantially in their views on the Virgin Mary, but in this new edition highlights some aspects that modern theology is particularly sensitive: it gives special importance to be Trinitarian approach, more attention to the call and response Mary to holiness in the broad introduction to the third part, stops over in the study of Mary's cooperation in the redemptive work taking into account current theological movements and enriches the subject of the cult of Mary. Therefore, this issue may be considered as new in its truest sense. The style of Professor Miguel Ponce Cuellar, who began his career with the publication of his doctoral thesis The nature of the Church according to St. Thomas, is to make available, without losing carats, the density of thought and careful study of a text the Bible, the Holy Father or one of the Magisterium of the Church. Herder also published by the same author: The Mystery of Man (1999) and Called to Serve (2001)