Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary"Devoting different sections of the book to each of the various roles Mary has assumed - Virgin, Queen, Bride, Mother, Intercessor - and drawing on official dogma, folk legend, art, history, literature and psychology, the author of Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances from the first century to the present day, and why, for all their beauty and power (and indeed because of them), the legends of Virgin Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority"--Google books description |
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... rosaries offered to her on earth by confraternities of Rome . This was the most glorious affirmation of the rosary's sacred power ; but what is much more interesting is the evidence the pope cited for the authenticity of the devotion ...
... rosaries offered to her on earth by confraternities of Rome . This was the most glorious affirmation of the rosary's sacred power ; but what is much more interesting is the evidence the pope cited for the authenticity of the devotion ...
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... rosary's sig- nal worth . Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes recited it with her 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 ...
... rosary's sig- nal worth . Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes recited it with her 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 ...
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... rosary , have continued to be particularly associated with the Catholic struggle against its enemies . In 1717 the feast of the Rosary was ex- tended to the whole ... rosary crusade to bring peace to Visions , the Rosary , and War | 313.
... rosary , have continued to be particularly associated with the Catholic struggle against its enemies . In 1717 the feast of the Rosary was ex- tended to the whole ... rosary crusade to bring peace to Visions , the Rosary , and War | 313.
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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