* Ethical works: De bono mortis ( Death as a Good ); De fuga saeculi ( Flight From the World ); De institutione virginis et sanctae Mariae virginitate perpetua ad Eusebium ( On the Birth of the Virgin and the Perpetual Virginity of Mary ); De Nabuthae ( On Naboth ); De paenitentia ( On Repentance ); De paradiso ( On Paradise ); De sacramentis ( On the Sacraments ); De viduis ( On Widows ); De virginibus ( On Virgins ); De virginitate ( On Virginity ); Exhortatio virginitatis ( Exhortation to Virginity ); De sacramento regenerationis sive de philosophia ( On the Sacrament of Rebirth, or, On Philosophy )

* Letters, The Life of Paulus the First Hermit, The Life of S. Hilarion, The Life of Malchus, the Captive Monk, The Dialogue Against the Luciferians, The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary, Against Jovinianus, Against Vigilantius, To Pammachius against John of Jerusalem, Against the Pelagians, Prefaces ( CCEL )

The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary.

Christians of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox traditions, as well as some Anglicans and some followers of Lutheranism, reject the idea that Jesus had blood siblings, as their churches hold the doctrine of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary.

Early in the 7th century, in the Short Book on the Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary Isidore of Seville connected the Mariological and Christological themes by linking the virginity of Mary to the divinity of Christ in a single line of argument.

To many Protestants this verse is one of the central reasons for rejecting the Perpetual Virginity.

Those who support the Perpetual Virginity argue that the passage is far vaguer in the original Greek than it is in English.

Presbyterian David Hill acknowledges that the wording does not absolutely deny the Perpetual Virginity ; however, he argues that if the idea of the perpetual virginity had been current at the time the gospel was written then the author of Matthew would have been more specific.

Perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament has continued uninterrupted in the Basilica since 1885.

The most important purpose was to spread the perpetual adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament and the cult of the Perpetual Help of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In 1903 the Archbishop of the Warsaw diocese forbade laypeople from observing some otherwise approved devotions of the Roman Catholic rite ( e. g. the Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament and the Perpetual Help of Our Lady ), which were considered most important by the Mariavite faction.

She said that the vision instructed her to form a new clerical order, whose primary goals were to propagate the Adoration of the Holy Sacrament and the Perpetual Help of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Sisters are Franciscian Poor Clares and as such observe strict enclosure, recite the Divine Office in choir and maintain Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

Various Roman Catholic societies and orders were formed for the specific purpose of perpetual adoration prior to the 19th century, e. g. the Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament ( 1659 in Marsaille ), Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and of the Perpetual Adoration ( formed in 1768 in Paris ), and the Religious of the Perpetual Adoration ( 1789, Switzerland ).

The 19th century thus witnessed a rapid growth in perpetual adoration societies, and some existing orders ( e. g. the Dominicans and the Poor Clares ) e. g. Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration ( 1845 in Brittany ), Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration ( also in 1854 ), Religious of Perpetual Adoration ( Brussels, 1857 ), Servants of the Most Blessed Sacrament ( 1858, Paris ), Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration ( 1863, Olpe, Germany ), Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters ( Holland, 1896 ),

Redemptorists are caretakers of Byzantine icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus and the instruments of the Passion, which was entrusted to them by Pope Pius IX.

This symbol of the Blessed Virgin Mary represents the Marian consecration of the two religious orders that founded the school, the Marianists and the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

Perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is kept up by rotation, and self-mortification is practised.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, also known as Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary by Pope Pius IX, associated with a celebrated Byzantine icon of the same name dating from the 15th century.

Our Lady of Sorrows and St Francis, Armthorpe • Blessed English Martyrs, Askern • Sacred Heart, Balby • St Helen, Burghwallis • St George and the English Martyrs, Carcroft • Our Lady of Mount Carmel & St Mary Magdalen, Intake • Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Bentley • St Paul, Cantley • St Peter in Chains, Doncaster • Maridon Pastoral Centre, Doncaster • Polish Chaplaincy, Doncaster • St Mary, Edlington • Holy Family, Finningley • St Thomas of Canterbury, Kirk Sandall • St Joseph and St Nicholas, Moorends • Christ the King, Rossington • Our Lady of the Assumption, Stainforth • St Joseph and St Teresa, Woodlands • St Alban, Denaby • English Martyrs, Mexborough

* Perpetual virginity of Mary

** Franciscan Minims of the Perpetual Help of Mary

Bridgeport's Polish history is most visibly represented in its two churches in the Polish Cathedral style: St. Mary of Perpetual Help, and St. Barbara.

The Art Institute of Chicago has done restoration work on the paintings in the Shrine Altars at St. Mary of Perpetual Help which date back to 1890, with further plans calling for restoration of the stained glass windows and to complete the painting of the interior ceilings and rotunda.

The Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and of the Perpetual Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar is a Roman Catholic religious institute of brothers, priests, and nuns.

Archbishop Gerald Bergan invited the priests and brothers from the Society of Mary and the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to help create the Gross Catholic community.

The first and most prominent Lithuanian enclave in Chicago was called " Lithuanian Downtown " which was located along Halsted street in Bridgeport and founded by Lithuanians who settled nearby their Old World neighbors, the Poles, who were located in a Polish Patch in the vicinity of St. Mary of Perpetual Help.

Pope John Paul II held mass at the National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in the Philippines where the devotion is very popular and many Catholic churches hold a Rosary, Benediction, Novena and Eucharistic Mass honoring Mary every Wednesday using a replica of the icon, which is also widely displayed in houses, buses and public transport in the Philippines.

He did pastoral work in Glenview at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, taught at Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary, and served as a Master of Ceremonies under Cardinals Cody and Bernardin.

In 1240 Nicholas Donin, with the support of Pope Gregory IX, referred to Yeshu narratives to support his accusation that the Jewish community had attacked the Virginity of Mary and the divinity of Jesus.

`` O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our most gentle queen and mother, look down in mercy upon England, thy `` dowry '', and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in thee.

A late account by Rudolph de Novamagia refers to Albertus ' encounter with the Blessed Virgin Mary, who convinced him to enter Holy Orders.

* Blessed Virgin Mary ( Roman Catholic ), called the New Ark of the Covenant by Christians of the Catholic tradition

A number of Roman Catholic writers connect this verse with the Woman of the Apocalypse in, which immediately follows, and argue that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the " Ark of the New Covenant.

The anthem developed as a replacement for the Catholic " votive antiphon " commonly sung as an appendix to the main office to the Blessed Virgin Mary or other saints.

This comprises psalms, antiphons, lessons, & c., for feasts of various groups or classes ( twelve in all ); e. g. apostles, martyrs, confessors, virgins, and the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Here are found the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Office of the Dead ( obligatory on All Souls ' Day ), and offices peculiar to each diocese.

" In this inner cell she made her father into a representation of Christ, Lapa into the Blessed Virgin Mary, and her brothers into the apostles.

Histories of the Holy Rosary often attribute its origin to Saint Dominic himself through the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The friars built an oratory to the Blessed Virgin Mary and by 1265, the brethren, in keeping with their devotion to study, began erecting a school.

*:( from the Dominican Missal, Preface of the Blessed Virgin Mary )

With this deed dating back to August 15, 805 A. D., the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she donated her entire property in Dachau, including 5 so called Colonenhöfe and some serfs and bondsman, to devolve to the Bishop of the Diocese of Freising after her death.

Meetings between Pope John Paul II and the Assyrian Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV led to a common Christological declaration on 11 November 1994 that " the humanity to which the Blessed Virgin Mary gave birth always was that of the Son of God himself ".

Some hymns praise or address individual saints, particularly the Blessed Virgin Mary ; such hymns are particularly prevalent in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and to some extent " High Church " Anglicanism.

The Immaculate Conception is a dogma of the Catholic Church maintaining that from the moment when she was conceived the Blessed Virgin Mary was kept free of original sin and was filled with the sanctifying grace normally conferred during baptism.

The proclaimed Roman Catholic dogma states " that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.

Many believe the woman to have been the Blessed Virgin Mary and pray to her as such.

The Roman Catholic tradition has a well-established philosophy for the study of the Immaculate Conception and the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the field of Mariology, with Pontifical schools such as the Marianum specifically devoted to this.

In the Church of England's Common Worship prayer book, 8 December is designated a Lesser Festival of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( without the adjective " immaculate ").

The Society of Jesus is consecrated under the patronage of Madonna Della Strada, a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is led by a Superior General, currently Adolfo Nicolás.

Cardinale ( 1983 ), the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded by two Bolognese nobles Loderingo degli Andalò and Catalano di Guido in 1233, and approved by pope Alexander IV in 1261.

This life of love, according to him, is the life of the saints such as Teresa of Calcutta and the Blessed Virgin Mary and is the direction Christians take when they believe that God loves them.

Some authors claim that Gelasius replaced Lupercalia with the " Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary ", but this is based in incorrect assumptions, and there is no written record of Gelasius intending any such thing.