Our Lady the Gate of Dawn | Woman of the Apocalypse Rev 12:1 | Theotokos Gold Floral Texture Design | Orthodox Christian Hardcover JournalAnd there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. Revelation 12: 1 The focus of this great sign is a woman, who is the Most Holy Theotokos, the mother of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. The sign is an image of the First Coming of Christ, but, simultaneously, within the same image there is another aspect, one with an eschatological dimension, which is that of

and prevail when Thou art judged

and who do not love at all

” The strength of Christianity was for him in humility and toleration

“Who Is and Who Was and Who Is to Come

- John 16:20-33

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such great beauty

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” In the Sermon on the mount

Thou hast condemned him to return again unto the earth when he was taken

but it was not yet daybreak

He spoke to idolaters heavy laden and oppressed by the devil and weighed down by the multitude of their sins