Word: nestorius
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...doubting Apostle, founded the Church of the East in the First Century. A great missionary church, it made millions of converts in distant India and China, then slowly dwindled. Its split with the Western Church came when it accepted the doctrine of the dual nature of Christ propounded by Nestorius, a Fifth-Century Patriarch of Constantinople. Pope Celestine I declared the doctrine heretical. Nestorius was deposed, but Nestorianism continued to flourish among the Assyrians. Aramaic, the language which Christ spoke, is still the liturgical language of the Assyrian Church...
...reflect attentively on the fact that nothing can be more acceptable to Jesus Christ, who certainly burns with great love for his mother, than to venerate her according to her merits, to love her deeply . . . ?" To all Protestants and to Eastern Christians who still cling to the heresies of Nestorius, Pope Pius XI proffered his Church's traditional invitation to return...
Ephesus, a city in Asia Minor which today lies ruined in a low, unhealthy marsh, was the traditional home of the Virgin Mary after she left Jerusalem. To Ephesus, in 431, went papal legates, Eastern patriarchs, bishops, to meet in judgment of a grievous heresy. Nestorius, new Patriarch of Constantinople, had declared that Mary could not be truly called "Mother of God." Mary, said he, was Mother of Christ in His human nature only. This view, in spite of protests from Rome. Nestorius defended. St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, was appointed to inform Nestorius he must recant or be deposed...
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