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Helvidius (sometimes Helvetius) was the author of a work written prior to 383 against the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary.Helvidius maintained that the biblical mention of "sisters" and "brothers" of the Lord constitutes solid evidence that Mary had normal marital relations with Joseph and additional children after the miraculous conception and birth of Jesus.
Saint Anthony the Great was known to have belonged to a brotherhood called the "Spoudaioi". Brotherhoods (Ukrainian: братство; literally, "fraternities") were non-monastic organisations of Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic citizens or lay brothers affiliated with individual autocephalous churches.
The doctrine of Mary's perpetual virginity has been challenged on the basis that the New Testament explicitly affirms her virginity only until the birth of Jesus [16] and mentions the brothers of Jesus, [17] [18] who may have been: (1) sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph; (2) sons of Joseph by a former marriage; or (3) sons of the ...
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Oldest known image of Mary, mother of Jesus, here depicted nursing her son (Roman catacombs, 2nd century AD) Helvidius took the view that although Mary was a virgin at the time she conceived Jesus, she and Joseph had sexual relations subsequently — hence the brothers and sisters of Jesus mentioned in the Gospels.
Cyril of Alexandria - 5th century Patriarch of Alexandria and the most important defender of Virgin Mary's title as the *Theotokos; Epiphanius of Salamis - 5th century Saint and Bishop. He wrote the Panarion and other theological works. Georges Florovsky; Saint Maximus the Confessor - saint and monk who lived from 580 to 662 A.D. He defend ...
Marian devotions are external pious practices directed to the person of Mary, mother of Jesus, by members of certain Christian traditions. [1] They are performed in Catholicism, High Church Lutheranism, Anglo-Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, but generally rejected in other Christian denominations.
Icon used on the Sunday of the Myrrhbearers. The three Marys are in the center with the two angels at either side, in the foreground is the Holy Sepulchre with the winding sheet and napkin. In the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches, the Third Sunday of Pascha (i.e. the second Sunday after Easter) is called the 'Sunday of the ...