Virgin Mary (Europe) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World Mythology
In the person of the Virgin Mary the earth goddess—the ‘great mother’ of ancient religions—succeeded in re-establishing something of her
Virgin Mary Reference library
Gerhard Podskalsky, Annemarie Weyl Carr, and Nancy Patterson Ševčenko
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
mother of Jesus Christ, aeiparthenos and Theotokos in Greek terminology. The Gospels give little historical data concerning Mary other than her betrothal to ...
Virgin Mary, liturgical veneration of Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
In full bloom by the early 5th century when Marian feasts were established in *Constantinople (26 December) and
