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Saint Manuel Gonzalez Garcia was a bishop of Spain in the first part of the twentieth century. While his writings on the Eucharist are manifold, this work is the first to uncovers in a systematic fashion his rich Marian texts, revealing a beautiful and well-balanced Mariology. S…

My thesis is that Ephrem uses Mary's pregnancy in his Hymns on the Nativity both as a model for the ascetical life and as a way of explaining, theologically, what it means to be a Christian ascetic. For Ephrem, Mary is the first to have her body transformed through the union of …