Gabriel Maria Roschini, OSM (December 19, 1900 – September 12, 1977), was a Roman Catholic Italian priest and professor of Mariology, who published over 900 titles on the subject.
After ordination Roschini was posted to Nepi, south of Rome, where he met Cecilia Eusepi and became her spiritual director.
In 1950 during the reign of Pope Pius XII he founded the Marianum Theological Faculty, which is now a pontifical institute, and served as its rector.
He was also instrumental in reviving the Marian Library, which was transferred to the International College of Saint Alexis Falconieri in 1946.
[9] Roschini worked closely with the Pontiff, arranging his own publications parallel to Papal mariological promulgations.
[1] During and after Vatican II, Roschini tried to adjust to the colder mariological spirit in his 1973 publication Il mistero di Maria considerato alla luce del mistero di Cristo e della Chiesa, an updated four volume handbook of mariology.
In his 1946 publication Compendium Mariologiae he explained that Mary not only participated physically in the life of Jesus by giving birth to him but also, when she conceived her divine Son, she entered into a spiritual union with him.