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

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

Meet Mary teaches you everything the Bible says about her, what the early Christians believed, and all of the Church's key Marian teachings of 2,000 years.

Long overlooked by scholars, this seventh-century "Life of the Virgin," attributed to Maximus the Confessor, is the earliest complete Marian biography. Original

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