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Neanderthal poetics, episcopal rhetoric, and the Blessed Mother

The Tuesday Pillar Post

JD Flynn
Nov 21, 2023
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Hey everybody,

Happy Thanksgiving. And more to the point, at least for today, blessed feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

“The presentation of Mary,” Titian, 16th century. Public domain.

The feast of the Presentation of Mary commemorates an ancient Christian tradition, which holds that when she was just a few years old, Mary’s parents, Jo…

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