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Luke is unclear about Mary's virginity at the time of the Annunciation, and the
virgin birth, which seemed to Matthew the essential precondition of Christ's
divinity, is ambiguously treated in the Lucan infancy Gospel. The evangelist calls
Mary a ...
Luke is unclear about Mary's virginity at the time of the Annunciation, and the
virgin birth, which seemed to Matthew the essential precondition of Christ's
divinity, is ambiguously treated in the Lucan infancy Gospel. The evangelist calls
Mary a ...
Page 66
The earliest feasts of the Virgin were instituted in the fifth century in Byzantium:
the Annunciation (first kept on Ember Wednesday during Advent and then at the
vernal equinox, March 25) ; and a commemoration in honour of her virginity,
which ...
The earliest feasts of the Virgin were instituted in the fifth century in Byzantium:
the Annunciation (first kept on Ember Wednesday during Advent and then at the
vernal equinox, March 25) ; and a commemoration in honour of her virginity,
which ...
Page 278
In S. Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, there is an altarpiece of the Annunciation
painted by Antoniazzo Romano (d. 1508) : Mary ignores the presence of the
angel Gabriel in order to bestow a silken purse of gold on the three young girls in
simple ...
In S. Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, there is an altarpiece of the Annunciation
painted by Antoniazzo Romano (d. 1508) : Mary ignores the presence of the
angel Gabriel in order to bestow a silken purse of gold on the three young girls in
simple ...
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Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary A Wallaby book |
| Author | Marina Warner |
| Publisher | Pocket Books, 1978 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Nov 2009 |
| ISBN | 0671790110, 9780671790110 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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