Abbot Vonier was a Benedictine monk who lived from 1876 to 1938. He was elected Abbot of Buckfast Abbey, England, in 1906, and served in that capacity until his death. During his lifetime Vonier gained fame as the rebuilder of Buckfast, which had been left in ruins following the Reformation, and as the author of some 15 books of popular theology — works which developed “a vast company of admirers who welcomed every new book of his with enthusiasm.” From the Foreward"It is with this sense of undisturbed spiritual possession that this book on the Blessed Mother of God is written, for people who no more doubt the fact that the Son of God is the Son of Mary, than the fact that they were born of their own respective mothers. Human motherhood is the easiest as well as the sweetest subject of man’s speech; let divine maternity be as natural and as obvious a truth to us who believe in the Incarnation. "