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Dormition of the Theotokos
The Feast of the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on August 15 each year. The Feast commemorates the repose (dormition and in the Greek kimisis) or ...
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A Homily on the Dormition of Our Supremely Pure Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary
Therefore, the death of the Theotokos was also life-bearing ... this thine inheritance, O Lady! Dispel the perils which menace us. See how greatly we are expended by our own and by aliens, by those ...
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Feast of the Annunciation of our most holy lady, the Theotokos and ever virgin Mary
The Feast of the Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on March 25 each year. The Feast commemorates the announcement by the Archangel Gabriel to the ...
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John of Thessalonica on the Dormition of the Theotokos
And our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, who bestowed glory on His immaculate Mother Mary Theotokos, will also bestow glory on those who glorify her. (from On the Dormition of Mary, p. 67) State of the ...
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Theotokos, Feast of
death and resurrection of Our Lord is symbolized as water flowing from a fountain or deep well, related to many biblical images. In the ancient East, this idea of new life flowing from Christ through ...
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Our Lady of the Snows
Our Lady also appeared to Pope Liberius in a dream that same night ... When the Council of Ephesus defined Mary as Theotokos, the God-bearer, in 431 A.D., Pope Sixtus III (432-440) rebuilt and ...
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Dormition of the Theotokos
At the time of her death, the disciples of our Lord who were preaching throughout the world returned to Jerusalem to see the Theotokos. Except for the Apostle Thomas, all of them including the Apostle ...