More than a century ago, senior Vatican figures decided to suppress a traditional devotion promoted for centuries by saints, popes and theologians that portrays Mary as a priest.
28 July 2022, The Tablet
Why did Rome try to ban this image that portrays Mary as a priest?
The Virgin priest
Detail from an 1890 painting of a seventh-century mosaic of Mary with a pallium.
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