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According to a pious source, one day St. Francis had a vision in which he saw his friars trying to reach Christ by a ladder that was red and very steep. After climbing a few rungs, they would suddenly fall back to the earth. Our Lord then showed St. Francis another ladder, white and much less steep, at whose summit appeared the Blessed Virgin. He said to Francis: "Advise your sons to go by the ladder of My Mother."
Among those devotions rich in Franciscan, and especially Capuchin Franciscan tradition, is devotion to the Virgin Mother of God. St. Francis of Assisi was among the greatest Marian devotees in the history of the Church and, according to the Second Vita of Thomas of Celano, had a love for her that was beyond words. "Inexpressible," he writes of Francis' love for the Blessed Virgin, "for it was she who made the Lord of majesty our brother." St. Francis chose her as the patroness and Queen of the Friars Minor and exhorted his friars to always possess a true and living devotion to the Mother of God.
- Meditation on the Immaculate Conception by St. Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), Capuchin
- Prayers to Our Lady by St. Francis of Assisi
- Mirror of the Blessed Virgin Mary by St. Bonaventure
- The Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary by St. Bonaventure
- On the Immaculate Conception by St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Capuchin Franciscan
- Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Friar Jacopone da Todi
- Capuchin Saints on Our Lady
- Rule for Those Consecrated to the Immaculate Virgin by St. Maximilian Kolbe, Conventual Franciscan
- Act of Total Consecration to the Immaculate Virgin by St. Maximilian Kolbe, Conventual Franciscan