"Since the time of the early Church, Orthodox Christians have honored Mary, the Mother of God, with special solemnity on August 15. From the sixth century on, t

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For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centurie

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