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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary |
 | | Mary is there called "Mistress of the Heavens, Mother of the Heavenly and earthly Church, Recreation of Life, Mistress of the Tribes, Mother of the Orphans, Breast of the Infants, Queen of Life, Ladder of Heaven." This composition may be as old as the middle of the eighth century. |
 | | And there is no reason to believe that these forms of piety had on the whole a delusive effect, and fostered nothing but superstition. |
 | | The purity, pity, and motherliness of Mary were always the dominant motive, even the "Miracle" of Max Reinhardt, the wordless play which in 1912 took London by storm, persuaded many how much of true religious feeling must have underlain even the more extravagant conceptions of the Middle Ages. |
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