Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the widowers of Israel by divine token, to be her guardian. Later, the annunciation took place; when Mary's pregnancy was discovered, she and Joseph were brought before the High Priest protesting their innocence of earthly wrong. They were tried with "the water of the ordeal of the Lord," were acquitted. In Catholic dogma, Mary remained a virgin before, after and during the conception and birth of Christ.* Again, her perpetual virginity, maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, was not the general belief of early Christian writers, who held that Mary and Joseph were the parents of other children...
Growth of Mariology: In the earliest days of the Christian Church, sinful men prayed to the sainted martyrs, because they by their immediate ascension to heaven were better fitted to intervene with God, were closer to mere mortals than an awesome Lord. Then, gradually through the centuries, Mary-worship grew. In the catacombs, hunted and persecuted Christians scrawled pictures of the Virgin on the walls (150 A. D.,); it began truly to flourish in the Eastern Church about the 6th Century A. D.?? But it met with continued rebuke, as when the Collyridians were denounced by St. Epiphanius...
...times, St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople called her "the only bridge of God to man." Even John Wyclif, pre-Reformation "heretic" said: "It seems impossible to me that we should obtain the reward of heaven without the help of Mary." James, Cardinal Gibbons, in modern times wrote: "After our Lord Jesus Christ, no one has ever exercised so salutary and dominant an influence as the Virgin Mary on society, on the family, on the individual. . . . Queen of angels and saints [she] stands 'face to face' before God." He speaks of her as the "mirror of God," urges devout Catholics...
...Roman Catholic dogma of the ' Immaculate Conception" (of Mary) was defined as "of faith" as late as 1854 by Pope Pius IX in the Papal Bull "Ineffabilis Deus." It maintains that, while Mary was conceived in the manner common to all human beings, the Lord made her immaculate at the moment of conception; in this way her absolute sinlessness was provided...
Jeffrey John Archer, Viscount Holmesdale, great-grandson of famed Lord Jeffrey Amherst, whose name Amherst College bears: "For some months I have assisted Alexander Woollcott by writing dramatic reviews for the New York World, modestly signed with two of my many initials-J. H. Last week I received word that my father, the Fourth Earl of Amherst, aged 71, was desperately ill. Forthwith, I sailed for England hoping to see him alive. Three days out, I heard that he had died suddenly; found myself Fifth Earl of Amherst...