The Visitation shows Our Lady as Mediatrix
“That episode of the Visitation exhibits our Lady in her capacity as Mediatrix for the first time, and Saint John as the first beneficiary. Thereby was Saint John exhibited from the first as a special patron of Legionaries and of all legionary contacts, of the work of visitation in all its forms, and indeed of all legionary actions – these being but efforts to co-operate in Mary’s mediatorial office.”