The Sower and the Virgin – Historical Retrospect.—Second Period.
Early Church fathers and historical texts from the fourth century demonstrate that no special religious honor or worship was paid to the Virgin Mary, as early writers routinely attributed human faults and original sin to her. Instead, the period’s theologians universally affirmed that Jesus Christ alone was born without sin and entitled to divine adoration, rejecting the invocation of saints and the concept of an Immaculate Conception.
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