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São Paulo-Campos Elíseos.Santuário do Sagrado Coração de Jesus NOSSA SENHORA AUXILIADORA (Our Lady, the Helper)

São Paulo

Campos Elíseos

 

Paróquia e Santuário do Sagrado Coração de Jesus.

 

Início do século XX

Early 20th Century

 

Brasil

Brazil

 

Mary (Judeo-Aramaic: מרים, Maryām, from Hebrew Miriam, Greek Μαριαμ or Μαρια, in Arabic مريم Maryam), and called since medieval times Madonna (My Lady), resident in Nazareth in Galilee, is known from the New Testament as the mother of Jesus of Nazareth. The New Testament describes her as a young maiden who conceived by the agency of the Holy Spirit whilst she was already the betrothed wife of Joseph of the House of David and awaiting their imminent formal home-taking ceremony (the concluding Jewish wedding rite).

 

Christians generally maintain that she was a virgin at the point of conception and at least until the birth of Jesus. The Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox Churches and some Protestant denominations also maintain that Mary remained a virgin throughout the rest of her life.

 

Some Protestants, including certain Anglicans, Methodists and Lutherans, embrace veneration of Mary and also hold some of these doctrines. Others, especially in the Reformed tradition, question or even condemn the devotional and doctrinal position of Mary in the above traditions. Mary also holds a revered position in Islam.

 

The Roman Catholic tradition has a well established philosophy for the study and veneration of the Virgin Mary via the field of Mariology with Pontifical schools such as the Marianum specifically devoted to this task.

 

Mary's most common titles include The Blessed Virgin Mary (also abbreviated to "BVM"), Our Lady (Notre Dame, Nuestra Señora, Nossa Senhora, Madonna), Mother of God, and the Queen of Heaven (Regina Caeli) (see Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary).

 

Mary is referred to by the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy and all Eastern Catholic Churches as Theotokos, a title recognized at the Third Ecumenical Council (held at Ephesus to address the teachings of Nestorius, in 431). Theotokos (and its Latin equivalents, "Deipara" and "Dei genetrix") literally means "Godbearer". The equivalent phrase "Mater Dei" (Mother of God) is more common in Latin and so also in the other languages used in the Western Catholic Church, but this same phrase in Greek, in the abbreviated form of the first and last letter of the two words (ΜΡ ΘΥ), is the indication attached to her image in Byzantine icons. The Council stated that the Church Fathers "did not hesitate to speak of the holy Virgin as the Mother of God", so as to emphasize that Mary's child, Jesus Christ, is in fact God.

 

The title, Queen Mother, was given to Mary in early Christianity, since Mary was the mother of Jesus, who was sometimes referred to as the "King of Kings" due to a claimed royal line of King David. The Biblical basis for this understanding is found in 1 Kings 2:19-20, where King Solomon made his mother, Bathsheba, his queen mother present in his royal court, and honored all of her requests and requests from those who petitioned her. This governmental practice is also found throughout 1 and 2 Kings and in Jeremiah 13:18-19. In ancient Middle Eastern cultures, it was common for a king to have more than one wife; however, the king only had one mother and was an integral part of each royal court.

 

Mary is also sometimes referred to as the New Eve, as her obedience to God's command (contrasted with Eve's disobedience) led, according to this system of belief, to the salvation of mankind through Jesus

 

 

Desde os primeiros séculos, os cristãos têm dedicado especial reverência à Virgem Maria, Mãe de Jesus Cristo.

 

As primeiras representações iconográficas da Virgem Maria são as encontradas nas catacumbas romanas representando a Virgem Orante, ou seja , sozinha, em pé e de braços abertos. Também há representações suas em cenas retiradas da Bíblia ou dos Evangelhos Apócrifos. Com as resoluções do Concílio de Éfeso, condenando o nestorianismo, houve um grande incentivo ao culto da Virgem Maria, destacando-se o seu papel de Mãe de Deus (Θεοτοκος). Desde então, as representações da Virgem com o Menino Jesus, foram se tornando cada vez mais comuns.

 

A devoção dos povos foi criando uma série de invocações, pelas quais estes mesmos povos devotavam sua devoção à Mãe de Deus

 

 

FONTE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus)#See_also

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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