"NOTHING hinders certain others from being called mediators, in some respect, between God and man, forasmuch as they cooperate in uniting men to God, dispositively or ministerially."
~St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica, III, Q. 26. A. 1.
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi.
Tempera on wood, 1340-45; National Gallery, London.