Pope Leo’s name also has a Marian significance. Pope Leo XIII wrote 11 encyclicals on the rosary and was also the first pope to embrace the concept of Mary as mediatrix, which holds that Mary helps distribute Christ’s grace through her intercession. One of the new pope’s first visits was to the Mother of Good Counsel in Italy, and when he was bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, he offered a prayer of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary before the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fátima, which he requested be brought to Chiclayo from the Fátima shrine in Portugal.