Why does Mother Mary watch over women?

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Hello everyone! I have recently come back to Catholicism after many turbulent years in my relationship with the church. One of the questions I haven’t been able to find an answer to is why Mary specifically watches over women and acts as a guide for us. Answers are appreciated.

P.S. I said my first Rosary Prayer today. Thank you for praying me back to faith!
 
I’ve never heard of Mary, or anyone for that matter that watches or cares specifically over women.

From what I see, some Catholic women look to her as a guide because she’s a woman, but Mary guiding women specifically is a view I never came across to be honest.
 
I’ve never heard that she specifically watches over women, and not, say, men.

She provides a model of what a good woman does, how she acts, how she perseveres, and how she cooperates with God’s plan for her. She’s God’s ideal woman, and therefore a worthy model.

But that’s not to say she ignores men. Just that women are able to relate to her in a different way, just as men might find inspiration in St. Joseph’s example in a different way than women might.
 
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I haven’t been able to find an answer to is why Mary specifically watches over women and acts as a guide for us.
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I don’t know where you get that from. Her first apparition was to the Apostle James the Greater while she was alive so she is not limited to watching over women.
 
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One of the questions I haven’t been able to find an answer to is why Mary specifically watches over women and acts as a guide for us.
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She doesn’t specifically watch over women. She loves and watches over all humans.

She is most often held up as a model for women because she’s a woman and had many experiences that women face, such as being married, being pregnant, having a child, being widowed, losing her child to death, etc. But many great male saints have loved Mary, and I am sure she watched over all of them and many other men just as tenderly as women.
 
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scary to think she’d have the power to do that.
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First of all, Mary is not scary in any way, shape or form. Unless one is a demon or the devil, as they are the only ones who find her frightening.
Second of all, “She” didn’t have the power to do that, God allowed her to do that in order to strengthen people’s faith.
Third of all, many saints and holy people who are obviously below the level of Mary, since she is the greatest saint and closest to Jesus, have exhibited the ability to bilocate while they were alive. St. Padre Pio reportedly did it frequently. Venerable Mary of Agreda reportedly did it. It happens.
is this biblical?
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No, it’s part of sacred tradition, but Pope Innocent XIII endorsed it in the early 1700s and one of the Popes following him allowed a feast day to be celebrated in honor of the apparition, “Our Lady of the Pillar”. It’s considered a traditionally approved apparition.
 
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