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| | Mary: Ever Virgin |
 | | Why do you wonder at this, O man?" (Sermons 186:1 [A.D. "Heretics called Antidicomarites are those who contradict the perpetual virginity of Mary and affirm that after Christ was born she was joined as one with her husband" (Heresies 56 [A.D. Leporius | | | However, due to considerations of ceremonial cleanliness, it was eventually necessary for Mary, a consecrated "virgin of the Lord," to have a guardian or protector who would respect her vow of virginity. | | | Today most Protestants are unaware of these early beliefs regarding Marys virginity and the proper interpretation of "the brethren of the Lord." And yet, the Protestant Reformers themselvesMartin Luther, John Calvin, and Ulrich Zwinglihonored the perpetual virginity of Mary and recognized it as the teaching of the Bible, as have other, more modern Protestants. |
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http://www.catholic.com/library/Mary_Ever_Virgin.asp
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| | Disinformation :: Virgin Prunes: Hymns From The Village |
| | Virgin Prunes had lost two members in Dik and Guggi with Mary switching to guitar and Pod returning to percussion. | | | Mary and Strongman discovered the dark psychedelia of The Prunes and finally Dave-id showcased his uniquely inventive solo albums. | | | With Virgin Prunes rapidly gaining notoriety and a huge underground following for the often radical and confrontational aspects of their largely improvised concerts. |
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http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle6332.html
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| | TrouserPress.com :: Virgin Prunes |
| | Going by the name Princess Tinymeat, early Virgin Prunes transvestite drummer Haa Lacka Bintii has made a number of singles, collected on the Herstory album, that rival his former band in the weirdness department. | | | A chasm soon grew between main singer Friday, who wished to explore more romantic cabaret music, and bassist Strongman and drummer-turned-guitarist Mary, who just wanted to be a rock band. | | | Both sides got their wishes when the Virgin Prunes called it a day in mid-'86. |
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http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=virgin_prunes
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| | Mary's Flowers |
| | The cloistered, enclosed garden, sometimes called a Paradise Garden, came to represent the purity of the Virgin Mary. | | | Mary was associated with this passage from the Song of Songs (2:1) | | | The flower also symbolized the innocence of Mary. |
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http://www.udayton.edu/mary/resources/flowers.html
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| | virgin For Sale |
| | Virgin Mary Table Clock The Holy Virgin waits for you upon her heavenly cloud, welcoming you with outstretched arms to her loving embrace. | | | Virgin Mary Figurine The Holy Mother offers peace and comfort to you as she stands gracefully upon a cloud. | | | DIVING AND SNORKELING GUIDE TO THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS by Linda Sorensen. |
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http://www.ioffer-portableaudio-video.com/si/virgin
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| | The Black Madonna |
| | Beyond general style, the genre of the statue is certainly that of an 'enthroned virgin', typical of the earliest icons of Mary. | | | The Dark Virgin is clothed in a rigid fabric mantle--- heavily and richly embroidered, so that only Her Hands and Face are visible, While Her hands are in set in continuous prayer. | | | Another Mary Magdalene this one is an 'icon' which is supposedly a window into the spiritual world or a window into the house of God. |
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http://www.bluemoonnews.com/images7.htm
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| | Sister Lucia De Jesus Dos Santos (A Complete Obituary) |
| | Lucia later revealed that, while the crowd witnessed the sun change colour, the seers witnessed visions of the Virgin Mary and also Jesus and Joseph in the sky. | | | Sister Lucia De Jesus Dos Santos, who died on Sunday aged 97, was the last of the three children said to have seen apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary outside the Portuguese town of Fatima in 1917. | | | Seeing a flash of white light over a holm oak tree, they feared a thunderstorm, and were shepherding the flock downhill when they met a lady by the tree "shining white, brighter than the sun", as Lucia recorded in her memoirs. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1348865/posts
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| | Katy Widder |
| | "A Black Virgin Mary, First Amendment Rights, Local Artists and a Pop Song" | | | Chris Ofili used paper collage, oil pain, glitter, polyester resin, map pins and elephant dung on linen to create his "Holy Virgin Mary" in 1996 that is on display as a part of the "Sensation" exhibit. | | | Giuliani and other Catholics saw the Virgin Mary depiction as negative, when in fact the artist is Catholic himself. |
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http://www.uark.edu/misc/observa/widder.html
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| | MUSO - Dave-id Busaras |
| | After the break-up of the Virgin Prunes in 1987 Dave-id continued to work with Mary and Strongman as The Prunes - releasing two albums "Lite Fantastik" (1989) and "Nada" (1990). | | | He was also an integral part of the Virgin Prunes in the studio contributing tracks to all their albums. | | | He joined the Virgin Prunes at the very beginning of the group and though early performances involved a ketchup-smothered chicken to a musical accompaniment he soon began writing songs and performing them live. |
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http://www.iol.ie/~murraycp/dave-id.html
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| | Mary Queen of Heaven, Goddess & Saint |
| | The Blessed Virgin Mary is known as the dispenser of mercy, the ever patient mother, and protectress of humanity. | | | It is because of the love for Mary that the Church considered elevating the Blessed Virgin Mary to the role of Co-Redeemer. | | | Devotion to the Black Virgin has never been stronger, Her shrines attract thousands of worshippers each year. |
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http://www.spiralgoddess.com/Mary.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Heresie [Remastered]: Music |
| | The musical similarities between the bands are tenuous however, while U2 seemed to be pre-occupied with `Echo and the Bunnymen` records like `Crocodiles` and American college radio, The Virgin Prunes had a theatrical element which they married to their krautrock and post-punk influences. | | | New Form of Beauty, a [Remastered]; Audio CD ~ Virgin Prunes | | | For a time the Virgin Prunes were dubbed "the most overtly subversive rock group ever to come out of the genre". |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002IJ8ZI
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| | Super-Miracle Fatima Debunked! |
| | The year previous to the visions of Mary, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco met the Guardian Angel of Portugal. | | | Mary evidently thought that the pope would listen to her. | | | Lucia claimed that everything to do with the apparitions of the Virgin was clear in her head and unforgettable to her (page 13, page 99). |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ego2/fatimafraud
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Blessed Virgin Mary |
| | Matthew's reference to the prophecy, we may add that the prophecy predicted also Mary's virginity untarnished by the conception of the Emmanuel [7]. | | | The Office of the Blessed Virgin applies to Mary many passages concerning the spouse in the Canticle of Canticles [13] and also concerning Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs 8:22-31 [14]. | | | The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15464b.htm
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| | American Catholic News Bishops join papal envoy to celebrate funeral of Fatima visionary |
| | Sister Lucia continued having visions of the Virgin Mary and hearing messages from her as late as the 1980s and perhaps beyond, the archbishop said in 2000. | | | On May 13, 1917 -- when Lucia was 10 years old, Francisco was 9 and Jacinta was 7 -- the children claimed to have seen the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima, near their home. | | | In the late 1930s, Sister Lucia made public the first two parts of the messages from Mary, which the children had kept secret. |
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http://www.americancatholic.org/news/Fatima/ObitLucia.asp
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| | Black Madonna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A Black Madonna (also, Black Virgin) is a statue or painting of Mary in which she is depicted as having black skin. | | | The most widely accepted explanation is that the Madonnas were not meant to represent a black-skinned Mary, but rather they are black simply because of the wood or stone they were carved from, or that smoke from candles and incense have turned them black. | | | Tradition has it that while painting the picture, St. Mary was telling him about her Son and her god—accounts that he was later to include in his gospel. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Madonna
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| | Our Lady of Fatima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Between May and October 1917, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to three shepherd childrenâ Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto âin the fields outside the village of Aljustrel, very close to Fatima, Portugal. | | | Interestingly, during the second apparition on June 13, 1917, the Virgin Mary predicted the deaths of two of the children. | | | In 1929, Lúcia reported that Mary returned and repeated her request for the Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Fatima
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| | Virgin Prunes :: Discography |
| | The first Virgin Prunes re-release came in a cardboard gatefold sleeve with notes from Mary and Strongman. | | | The 1993 re-releases on New Rose Records include an insert advertising them as “Virgin Prunes: The Baby catalogue - The definitive collection of Virgin Prunes Recordings”. | | | It gives Baby catalogue numbers for all the recordings, although none of these appear either on the CD sleeves or the discs themselves. |
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http://www.virginprunes.com/work/discography.html
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| | Black Madonnas--Our Lady of Montserrat |
| | Beyond general style, the genre of the statue is certainly that of an 'enthroned virgin', typical of the earliest icons of Mary. | | | Perhaps, it was inspired by the commentaries on the Song of Songs ["I am black but beautiful"] which were popular at that time. | | | They do not answer the question why the Montserrat figures are black. |
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http://www.udayton.edu/mary/meditations/olmont.html
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| | TrouserPress.com :: Virgin Prunes |
| | VIRGIN PRUNES ( Buy CDs by this artist) | | | Going by the name Princess Tinymeat, early Virgin Prunes transvestite drummer Haa Lacka Bintii has made a number of singles, collected on the Herstory album, that rival his former band in the weirdness department. | | | A chasm soon grew between main singer Friday, who wished to explore more romantic cabaret music, and bassist Strongman and drummer-turned-guitarist Mary, who just wanted to be a rock band. |
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http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=virgin_prunes
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| | Prophecies and Warnings of Fatima (Morgana's Observatory) |
| | The Virgin Mary is said to have revealed prophecies of key 20th Century events, including the end of World War I, the start of World War II and the rise and fall of Soviet communism. | | | Sister Lucia was just 10 when she and her two younger cousins, Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta, are said to have seen the Virgin Mary above an olive tree near the central town of Fatima. | | | Mary allegedly appeared on the thirteenth of each month, and the children were there each time except for one apparition when they were locked away by government officials. |
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http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/janus.htm
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| | Patron Saints Index: Blessed Virgin Mary |
| | Feast of Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary I | | | Feast of Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary II Feast of Mary, Mother of God - I | | | In the 7th century, in the Byzantine Rite and at Rome, the Birth of the Blessed Virgin was celebrated this day. |
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http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintbvm.htm
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| | Seven Mary Three - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Seven Mary Three are a grunge band formed in 1992 when Jason Ross and Jason Pollock met while attending The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. | | | My professors thought it was a reference to something medieval, that it had to do with the Trinity, the Virgin Mary and the seven deadly sins. | | | Only seven months after its release, American Standard achieved platinum status (1,000,000 copies sold). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mary_Three
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| | SlideLecture-3-3 |
| | This sixteenth century French book of hours illustration represents Mary as the Immaculate Virgin surrounded with biblical symbols which the Church Fathers discerned to be prophetic symbols of her immaculate conception. | | | As in the rose windows and tympana of the gothic cathedrals, images of the Blessed Virgin and Child, or of the Blessed Virgin alone prior to the Nativity, were surrounded with symbols recalling her life, mysteries, virtues and divinely endowed prerogatives. | | | Of the flowers of the Mary Garden the rose, queen of flowers, is an ancient and universal symbol of the Incarnation, of Mary, of her love of God, and of her spiritual beauty and fragrance, pleasing to God. |
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http://www.mgardens.org/SlideLecture-3-MG-3.html
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| | ★ virgin |
| | 35 The Life of the Virgin Mary the Theotokos Holy Apostles Convent et al 0944359035 | | | 19 Virgin of the Rodeo Sarah Bird 0803261691 | | | The Virgin and the Unicorn Four Plays by Oscar Mandel Oscar Mandel 0914502107 |
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| | Mary Gardens |
| | In the Middle Ages, the Song of Songs was strongly connected with the Virgin Mary, A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. | | | A Mary Garden is a garden devoted to the Virgin Mary. | | | Its leaves were connected with the sorrow of the Virgin Mary at the crucifixion of her son, the leaves were seen to represent the words which Simeon spoke to Mary, when she and Joseph were in the temple to present the infant Jesus. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/garden_design/13044
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| | Black Madonnas - Cassandra Eason tells us all about this ancient phenomenon |
| | Sometimes shrines of Black Madonnas are inscribed with the words from the Song of Songs referring to the Queen of Sheba whose wisdom was greater than that of Solomon I am black but beautiful | | | The Black Madonna is the alter ego of the Virgin Mary, they are Queen of the Earth as Mary is Queen in Heaven and fertile and sensual as Mary is icon of the Immaculate Conception and Incorruptibility. | | | The Black Madonna is the Virgin who belongs to no man or deity, since all life emanated from her as Mother Nature. |
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http://www.cassandraeason.co.uk/black_madonnas.htm
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| | Black Virgin - definition of Black Virgin in Encyclopedia |
| | A Black Madonna (also, Black Virgin) is a statue or painting of Mary in which she is depicted as having black skin. | | | According to this fringe view, the Black Madonna is claimed to symbolize the hidden story of Mary Magdalene, after she fled to Egypt pregnant with Jesus's child and then went on safely to Provence, France. | | | They would have had to keep such knowledge hidden because presumably men in power through apostolic succession would be jealous of a Mary Magdalene who would be considered the "disciple Jesus loved best". |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Black_Virgin
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| | The ViRgiN pRuNes baffled audiences with their first few shows, which were a mixture of punk anger, theatrical performance, surrealist art and rock 'n' roll. | | | The departure of GUGGI and DIK who had become disenchanted with the music business prompted MARY D'NELLON (prune drummer POD's replacement) to take up the guitar...which allowed POD to return to the band. | | | 'Virgin Prunes' are the true, beautiful people, they see the world with the eyes of a child but unlike children they are adults - adults who unlike you or me live exactly what they are - UNTOUCHED." |
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http://virginprunes.pitas.com/
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| | John S. Stokes Jr. |
| | The name, "Mary Garden" has its recorded origins in medieval religious art and illustration, in which prints, and then paintings, of the Virgin and Child in enclosed gardens of symbolical flowers were entitled "Mary Gardens", and presumably were inspired by actual small gardens of the period. | | | Similarly, "Virgin," and "Mary's" are considered in most cases as referring to the Virgin Mary, with parallels in other European languages. | | | Bernard's words in praise of Mary in the 12th century as "The rose of charity, the lily of chastity, the violet of humility. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/HISTPERS.htm
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| | FALSE GOSPEL IN THE STARS: THE BLACK VIRGIN |
| | This pregnant woman is the black madonna we often find in medieval shrines throughout Europe. | | | Exoterically the white virgin on the west facade is the Blessed Virgin Mary who gave birth two thousand years ago; but esoterically, she is the black virgin who was still pregnant with child. | | | They did this in the sanctuary of the Maiden Goddess Kore whom they equated with the image of the Holy Virgin. |
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http://watch.pair.com/virgo-black.html
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