Mary, the mother of Jesus

The collection begins with Sarah, wife of Abraham, and moves on through twenty-one listings of renownedOld Testament women. Each is introduced with the statement: We find . . . .EB 's...

On 2 August 1987 CB began her journey to St Patrick's Purgatory, retracing the steps Heaney took as he wrote his Station Island sequence (which appeared in a volume of his poems by the same...

Some of these titles are Early Christian Missions of Ireland, Scotland and England (1893), Attila and his Conquerors (1894), Ecce Ancilla Domini, Mary the Mother of our Lord : Studies in the Christian Ideal of...

In a move that reflected her turn to Catholicism , MAD published a devotional volume, Sanctuary, dedicated to MaryThe Mother of Jesus and featuring a preface by Charles Galton , a Jesuit priest.

Elizabeth Cary Falkland wrote verse lives of Mary Magdalen , Saint Agnes , and St Elizabeth of Portugal , and many poems about the Virgin Mary and various saints.

MF herself supplies an introduction explaining the book's intention to address the narrower question of women's ordination and the broader question of the full evaluation of women within the Christian community. She deals briefly...

Scenes and Hymns of Life includes Prisoners' Evening Service, which imagines the last days of two prisoners awaiting execution during the French Revolution, and affectingly described by Helen Maria Williams . Even...

Chapter one deals with the advantages and benefits of prayer: the means which God gives us to attain to our last end; and to that Sanctity, and Perfection he has design'd us. After several...

ABJ examined the life of the Virgin Mary in Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts, the third volume of her series Sacred and Legendary Art.

A number of poems in this volume express sympathy with the losses and failures of humanity, or address the passage of time. Several concern religious observance: among these are two poems both bearing the title...

The title comes from a Mayday hymn to Mary : the allusion to prayer is both nostalgic and ironical.

In what some consider her most ambitious religious work, she continues here her meditations on the female characters of the Bible. The text envisions the moment at which Eve , the Virgin Mary ...

The second title uses the Latin version of the words which the Virgin Mary spoke to the angel of the Annunciation, in English Behold the handmaid of the Lord!CR sat also as model for...

She dedicated to British Ladies interested in the bible these scholarly essays or notes. In a spirit of cultural enquiry she explains the use of camels as transport. In Jephthah's Daughter she argues confidently for...

FAS brackets her extremely touching story between two overt comparisons of Indian with British culture, not to the latter's advantage. No matter how barbarous the marriage customs of India, FAS writes that Uma confronts...