Article: Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture.

Dictionary definition: mater dolorosa
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable;      285 words ...mater dolorosa the Virgin Mary sorrowing for the death of Christ, especially as a representation ... c. 1230–1306) and others, ‘ Stabat mater dolorosa iuxta crucem lacrimosa [At the cross her station keeping, stood ...

Dictionary definition: Mater Dolorosa
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English;      300 words ...Mater Dolorosa noun phrase plural Matres Dolorosae E19 ... x2019;). (A title of) the Virgin Mary, as having a role in the Passion of Christ ... in painting or sculpture, of the Virgin Mary sorrowing; transferred a woman resembling ...

Dictionary definition: Stabat Mater Dolorosa
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;      322 words ...Stabat Mater Dolorosa. Opening words (‘The sorrowful Mother was standing…’) of a Latin hymn describing the sorrows of the Virgin Mary at the cross of Jesus. Its author and date are unknown, though it ...

Dictionary definition: Stabat Mater dolorosa
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church;      280 words ...Stabat Mater dolorosa. A Latin hymn of unknown date describing the Sorrows of the BVM at the Cross. It came into liturgical use in the later Middle Ages. The many English translations include ‘At the Cross her station keeping’.

Article: Mater Dolorosa: Our Lady of Sorrows.(Opinion & ...
Manila Bulletin;  September 15, 2004 ;     504 words ... ... their children, one can see the sorrows of Mary. The inhumanities of today pose the same ... these questions, when one contemplates Mary in her suffering, the questions receive ... questions then become more concrete. How could Mary endure the sufferings that she endured ...

Article: ESSAYS on faith: ; 'Stabat Mater dolorosa'*
Charleston Gazette;  June 25, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... life." And then there is the question of Mary. Is it worse to be tortured to death or ... with a long riff about the suffering of Mary. I felt a little sleazy, but it worked ... thinking about delivering my short homily on Mary when I learned that there was indeed a ...

Article: Mater Dolorosa.(Poem)
National Catholic Reporter;  April 14, 2000 ;     317 words ...Blessed is she on Golgotha. Her son hangs still; the day is done. Ave, Maria, to the one who knows the wind trembles in its flask, the grain refuses threshing, for the teeth of the wicked are not yet broken, and she is still his mother. --Maryanne Hannan Troy, N.Y.