Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin MaryKnopf, 1976 - 400 pages |
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... vision of the Madonna to St. Dominic . According to tradition , Dominic , while conducting the Inquisition against the Albigensian heretics at the beginning of the thirteenth cen- tury , had been given the rosary in a vision by the ...
... vision of the Madonna to St. Dominic . According to tradition , Dominic , while conducting the Inquisition against the Albigensian heretics at the beginning of the thirteenth cen- tury , had been given the rosary in a vision by the ...
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... vision many times ; at Fatima in 1917 , the apparition urged the children to say their rosaries and called herself Our Lady of the Rosary . Both pilgrim- ages are now committed to the recital of the Hail Mary . At La Salette in France ...
... vision many times ; at Fatima in 1917 , the apparition urged the children to say their rosaries and called herself Our Lady of the Rosary . Both pilgrim- ages are now committed to the recital of the Hail Mary . At La Salette in France ...
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... vision of a saint , and to have special prophylac- tic powers against death and evil . In 1251 the Virgin appeared to St. Simon , an English mystic , who had acquired the sobriquet Stock from the tree in which he liked to immure himself ...
... vision of a saint , and to have special prophylac- tic powers against death and evil . In 1251 the Virgin appeared to St. Simon , an English mystic , who had acquired the sobriquet Stock from the tree in which he liked to immure himself ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 1 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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