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Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christianity, is known by many different titles (Blessed Mother, Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Holy Virgin, Madonna), epithets (Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Cause of Our Joy), invocations (Panagia, Mother of Mercy, God-bearer Theotokos), and several names associated with places (Our Lady of Loreto, Our Lady of Fátima).
The Council decreed that Mary is the Mother of God because her son Jesus is one person who is both God and man, divine and human. [31] This doctrine is widely accepted by Christians in general, and the term "Mother of God" had already been used within the oldest known prayer to Mary, the Sub tuum praesidium, which dates to around 250 AD. [158]
Queen of Heaven (Latin: Regina Caeli) is one of many queen titles used for Mary, mother of Jesus.The title derived in part from the ancient Catholic teaching that Mary, at the end of her earthly life, was bodily and spiritually assumed into heaven and that she is there honored as queen.
And so you say, O heretic, whoever you may be, who deny that God was born of the Virgin, that Mary the Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ ought not to be called Theotokos, i.e., Mother of God, but Christotocos, i.e., only the Mother of Christ, not of God. For no one, you say, brings forth what is anterior in time.
In the Latter Day Saint movement, Heavenly Mother, also known as Mother in Heaven, is the mother of human spirits and the wife of God the Father. Collectively Heavenly Mother and Father are called Heavenly Parents. [1] [2] Those who accept the Mother in Heaven doctrine trace its origins to Joseph Smith, founder
The Everything Mary Book. ISBN 1-59337-713-4. "Veneration of the Holy Mother of God". Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy. Vatican City: Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. 2001; Collaborative World Map with Marian devotion places pilgrimage sites, churches, grotto, cloisters, chapels.
The first index of the book (following the royal dedications and author's preface) is entitled "A collection of the Names and Titles given to Jesus Christ", with 198 names listed, each accompanied by a biblical reference. [14] During his lifetime, when the need for specificity arose, a patronym or toponym would be added to his given name.
Mystical City of God is a book written in the 17th century by the Franciscan nun Venerable Mary of Jesus of Ágreda. According to María de Ágreda, the book was to a considerable extent dictated to her by the Blessed Virgin Mary and regarded the life of the Virgin Mary and the divine plan for creation and the salvation of souls. The work ...