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>>621854

This is clearly just an example of folk religion merging with Christianity and would certainly not be tolerated by the church elders, it's only representative of fringe popular religion within the church and not of mainstream Christian practice at the time.

>>621859

Same can be told about this mosaic Nestorius. Whole outrage began because it was you who started something new, not the other way around.

Prayer itself is part of vespers and the term Theotokos had a comparatively long usage for it had been used by Origen, by Alexander of Alexandria, by Eusebius of Caesarea, Cyril of Jerusalem, Athanasius, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Cyril.

>>621854

>The correct Latin would be deipara or dei genetrix, not Mater Dei.

SANCTA MARIA MATER DEI ORA PRO NOBIS PECCATORIBUS

>>621872

More fitting would be this:

SUB TUUM PRAESIDIUM CONFUGIMUS SANCTA DEI GENITRIX

Mater Dei in Greek would be Μήτηρ (του) Θεοῦ; abbreviated ΜΡ ΘΥ

>>621870

>Same can be told about this mosaic

No it can't because it's from a church

>Nestorius

<implying

I just want paganism and idolatry out of Christianity