`` 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.

The late Medieval period saw the recitation of certain hours of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin, which was based on the Breviary in form and content, becoming popular among those who could read, and Bishop Challoner did much to popularise the hours of Sunday Vespers and Compline ( albeit in English translation ) in his ' Garden of the Soul ' in the eighteenth century.

" 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 formula for profession contained in the Constitutions of Montargis Priory ( 1250 ) demands that nuns pledge obedience to God, the Blessed Virgin, their prioress and her successors according to the Rule of St. Augustine and the institute of the Order, until death.

All Dominicans sang the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin each day and saluted her as their advocate.

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.

The definition makes no declaration about the Church's belief that the Blessed Virgin was sinless, in the sense of actual or personal sin.

The Council of Trent decreed: " If anyone shall say that a man once justified can sin no more, nor lose grace, and that therefore he who falls and sins was never truly justified ; or, on the contrary, that throughout his whole life he can avoid all sins even venial sins, except by a special privilege of God, as the Church holds in regard to the Blessed Virgin: let him be anathema.

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.

A feast of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin had already begun to be celebrated in some churches of the West.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval scholastics, refused to admit the Immaculate Conception, on the ground that, unless the Blessed Virgin had at one time or other been one of the sinful, she could not justly be said to have been redeemed by Christ.

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 Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary

* 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 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.

In the Catholic Church the month of May is dedicated to and honors the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The date was chosen in the early years of the Greek state so that it falls on the day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, strengthening the ties between the Greek Orthodox Church and the newly-found state.

** Blessed Humbert III of Savoy ( Roman Catholic Church )

** Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity ( Roman Catholic Church )

** Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos ( Roman Catholic Church )

Blessed Pope John XXIII (; ), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli ( 25 November 18813 June 1963 ), headed the Catholic Church and ruled Vatican City from 1958 until his death.

# The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God in the Mystery of Christ and the Church ( 52 – 69 )

## On the Blessed Virgin and the Church ( 60 – 65 )

## The Cult of the Blessed Virgin in the Church ( 66 – 67 )

" " It is the first time, in fact, and saying it fills our souls with profound emotion, that an Ecumenical Council has presented such a vast synthesis of the Catholic doctrine regarding the place which the Blessed Mary occupies in the mystery of Christ and of the Church.

The Order is considered by the Church to be under the special protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary and thus has a strong Marian devotion.

* The Church of the Most Blessed Trinity contains a beautiful picture by an unknown artist of the Quattrocento.

Blessed Pope Pius IX ( 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878 ), born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, was the longest-reigning elected Pope in the history of the Catholic Church, serving from 16 June 1846 until his death, a period of nearly 32 years.

* Lutherans also celebrate St John the Baptist or the Beheading of St John the Baptist on June 24, St Mary Magdalene July 22, St. Mary, Mother of Our Lord or the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on August 15, Holy Cross Day September 14, Francis of Assisi, renewal of the Church St. Francis of Assisi on October 4, and the Holy Innocents, Martyrs December 28.

The Blessed Nazju Falzon is entombed within the Franciscan Church.

The desire to have the bread and wine consecrated in the Eucharist available for the sick and dying led to the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, a practice which has endured from the earliest days of the Christian Church.

The date is designated the ' commemoration of blessed Onesimus ', indicating that it is not regarded as his date of death, and suggesting that his rank in the Catholic Church may be Blessed rather than Saint.

Salisbury Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, England, and is considered one of the leading examples of Early English architecture.

Its official name is The Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin of Worcester.

Addington Place, later known as Addington Farm and now called Addington Palace, dominates the village above the church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church and the ' Cricketers ' pub.

The church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church, built in 1080, in Addington village was once the only church when it was the centre of a larger parish then incorporating Shirley.