When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

John 19:26-27

“Mother of the Church, that is to say of all Christian people, the faithful as well as the pastors, who call her the most loving Mother” and establish that “the Mother of God should be further honoured and invoked by the entire Christian people by this tenderest of titles”.

- Pope St. Paul VI