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Mike Healy wrote:
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> Tom G <tgei@NOSPAMcybernex.net> wrote:
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> >the artist spidie wrote:
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> >> The veneration of Mary is a tradition established by God.
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> [Snip]
> 
> What are the historical origins of the adoration of Mary?
> 
> Says Catholic priest Andrew Greeley:  "Mary is one of the most
> powerful religious symbols in the history of the Western world...
> The Mary symbol links Christianity directly to the ancient religions
> of mother goddesses." - The Making of the Popes 1978 (U.S.A., 1979)
> p.227.
> 
> Of interest is the location where the teaching that Mary is the Mother
> of God was confirmed.  "The Council of Ephesus assembled in the
> basilica of the Theotokos in 431.  There, if anywhere, in the city so
> notorious for its devotion to Artemis, or Diana as the Romans called
> her, where her image was said to have fallen from heaven, under the
> shadow of the great temple dedicated to the Magna Mater since 330 B.C.
> and containing, according to tradition, a temporary residence of Mary,
> the title 'God-bearer' hardly could fail to be upheld."  - The Cult of
> the Mother-Goddess (New York, 1959), E.O.James, p.207.
> 
> Mary was  not specially honoured in the first-century Christian
> congregation.  The apostle Peter makes no mention of her at all in his
> inspired writings.  The apostle Paul did not use her name in his
> inspired letters but spoke of her only as "a woman." - Gal.4:4.
> 
> Suzanne.

Suzanne,

Thanks for posting this.

Tony