The festival is now held in honour of the town's patron saint, St Louis Bertrand, and the Mare de Deu dels Desemparats (Mother of God of the Defenceless).
She describes the Byzantine empire's appropriation of the Mother of God as protectress of the city of Constantinople and its rulers and the intricate metaphysical groundwork which made that change possible.
As a counterweight to the lamentable history of Christian-Jewish sparring, Ms Rubin might have said a bit more about the latest insights into the apparently Jewish roots of the Christian feasts which are ostensibly devoted to the Mother of God.
The faith's official theology, after wrestling with the different senses in which Christ was human and divine, had crystallised with the pronouncement in the early fifth century that Mary was Theotokos, the Mother of God: the person whose body was the miraculous locus of a unique cosmic event, the coming together of the Creator and the created, physical world.
"I am going to try to represent the mother attribute of God, " Bishop Wamukoya told reporters.
"I am going to try to represent the mother attribute of God, " she told the AP news agency.
"I am a little pencil in the hands of God, " Mother Teresa often told interviewers who asked about the future of her order.
Similarly, her Zulu grandfathers were invisibly anonymous and because there had never been any constant male presence in her life, certainly not one with any lasting significance for her, it was almost as though her entire family, including her mother, actually had come from God, conceived without benefit of male parents.
For one, though the presiding deity of the Juna Order for men is Dattatreya, (a three-faced minor god) we are thinking of incorporating Dattatreya's mother Anusuya as our presiding deity.
"This is the most important day for her and I, that we do it in front of God and our family, our church family, " says new mother Stephanie Jones.
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