Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

Inside over the first door I saw one of these, which shows Constantine offering the city to the Virgin Mary and Justinian offering the temple.

`` 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.

His interpretation of the beginning on the basis of the end prompts him to draw these parallels between the Virgin Eve and the Virgin Mary.

The outcome of such an experiment has been in due time the acceptance of the Bible as the Word of God inspired in a sense utterly different from any merely human book, and with it the acceptance of our Lord Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, Son of Man by the Virgin Mary, the Saviour of the world.

Gaudi, a Catholic and a devotee of the Virgin Mary, planned for the Casa Milà to be a spiritual symbol.

* 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 )

* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

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

In the Byzantine period, the Parthenon was turned into a church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

* 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.

Athanasius the bishop of Alexandria wrote about the connections between the Ark and the Virgin Mary: " O noble Virgin, truly you are greater than any other greatness.

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.

At the time, a shrine like this might shelter an image of the Crucifixion or the Virgin Mary, but since it is turned away from the viewer, we are not sure what it truly is.

To the east of Batalha is the world famous location of Fátima and a point of pilgrimage for the Roman Catholic religion due to the vision of the Virgin Mary in 1917 by three young children whilst tending their flock.

: born of the Virgin Mary,

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: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, died, and was buried, rose from the dead, and is now seated at the right hand of the Father?

There Bernard would preach an immediate faith, in which the intercessor was the Virgin Mary.

He had a special devotion to the Virgin Mary, and he would later write several works about the Queen of Heaven.

Bernard would expand upon Anselm of Canterbury's role in transmuting the sacramentally ritual Christianity of the Early Middle Ages into a new, more personally held faith, with the life of Christ as a model and a new emphasis on the Virgin Mary.

For example, Joseph Goering of the University of Toronto has identified sources for Grail imagery in 12th century wall paintings from churches in the Catalan Pyrenees ( now mostly removed to the Museu Nacional d ' Art de Catalunya, Barcelona ), which present unique iconic images of the Virgin Mary holding a bowl that radiates tongues of fire, images that predate the first literary account by Chrétien de Troyes.

However, the council ultimately sided with Cyril, holding that Christ is one subsistence and nature, and that the Virgin Mary is the mother of God.

The Territory considered holding a plebiscite as to whether the British and U. S. Virgin Islands should merge under the U. S. flag, but ( although there was no opposition from Westminster ) it is unlikely that the U. S. State Department would have acquiesced to taking over responsibility for the impoverished Territory, and in the event no plebiscite was ever held.

In the 20th century, in the last apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, Sister Lúcia, one of the most famous visionaries of Our Lady, said that the Virgin appeared to her as Our Lady of Mount Carmel ( holding the Brown Scapular ).

* Royal Burgh of Cullen, a 20th century armorial: Per fess sable and argent, in chief on a sedilla or cushioned gules diapered or the Blessed Virgin enthroned proper habited gules mantled azure crowned or and holding in her dexter hand a sceptre surmounted of a fleur de lis or and in her sinister arm the Holy Child enhaloed also proper in base a talbot passant of the first ( Public Register, vol 41, p 37, 1956 )

Gold coin of John II Komnenos, depicting the Virgin Mary and John holding a cross.

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The faithful bring a new white handkerchief and give it to the hermit to swap it with the one the Virgin has been holding which, in turn, is then given to someone sick or lonely.

The dome was reserved for an image of Christ called the " Pantokrator " ( meaning " ruler of all "), usually as a bust in a roundrel, the drum usually contained images of angels or prophets, and the semi-dome of the apse usually depicted the Virgin Mary, typically holding the Christ child and flanked by angels.

Virgin Group's date of incorporation is listed as 1989 by Companies House, who class it as a holding company ; however Virgin's business and trading activities date to the 1970s.

Each of the companies operating under the Virgin brand is a separate entity, with Branson completely owning some and holding minority or majority stakes in others.

One of the most common Christian themes is that of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus.

Although the Pietà most often shows the Virgin Mary holding Jesus, there are other compositions, including those where God the Father participates in holding Jesus ( see gallery below ).

Michelangelo's last work was another Pietà, this one featuring not the Virgin Mary holding Christ, but rather Joseph of Arimathea, probably carved as a self-portrait.

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The Virgin's body composition responds to the weight of holding the child, whereas in previous depictions of the Virgin and child by Duccio the Virgin's physicality remains affected by the realistic influences of weight and composition.

The type of secure holding that Lorenzetti depicts in this painting is unprecedented in a painting, but could have been found in previous sculptures of Virgin and Child.

The Sceptre includes several Christian symbols: stylised dolphins, symbols of the Church, appear on the head of the rod, as do images of the Virgin Mary holding a baby Christ, of Saint James the Great, and of Saint Andrew holding a saltire.

Seated above is the Virgin Mary, holding the infant Jesus in her right arm, in her left hand she holds a stem of lily, her attribute denoting purity.

There is a figure of St Andrew, dated around 1600, which stands on the north side of the sanctuary and an unusual figure of Saint Anne who is shown holding the Virgin Mary who in turn holds the Christ child.

The King of Poland could also wear the cross from a collar of 24 alternative links of white enameled eagles, crowned and holding scepters and orbs and dark blue enameled ovals, surrounded by gold rays, bearing alternatively full-length enamelled images of the Virgin Mary crowned, dressed in pink and pale blue and supporting the Christ Child on her left arm and holding a gold scepter in her right hand and the letters of her name, " MARIA ", arranged into a stylized monogram in white enamel.