Mary, Mother of the Church
Mary, Mother of the Church of Novaliches, Quezon City The Blessed Virgin Mary is known in numerous titles based from her acts, virtues, offices, sobriquets (named after an apparition site or a specific devotion) that stems back from the early years of Christianity. One of these well known title is "Mother of the Church" and this is one of the recent feasts that Our Holy Father Pope Francis instituted in 2018. So what does this title mean to us faithful Catholics and was there an existing devotion in our country? For this blog post, we are going to tackle on this seemingly new yet ancient title of the Blessed Virgin Mary and it's importance in our times. The Schutzmantel Madonna The iconography There wasn't a specific iconography of the Blesssed Virigin Mary under this specific title yet there already numerous kinds of depictions of the Blessed Mother as "Mother of the Church". One of the most ancient was the Schutzmantel Madonna where