MARIAN SANCTUARY // CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Happy day friends of steemit, today on a super hot day for all the inhabitants of eastern Venezuela, I bring a compilation of photos taken by my ihone in one of the visits I made to the Church of the Virgin of the Valley patron of the neoespartanos in the Island of Margarita in Venezuela.
The Marian shrine of the Virgin of the Valley has many niches and religious beauties and is a must for all those who visit that region of Venezuela. I could not take a picture of the image of the Virgin, since as the next month her day will be celebrated, they have the Virgin saved to prepare her and prepare her clothes to present to the parishioners on the day of her assumption, which is the 8th of September..
SIMPLY MAJESTIC !!!
This doesn't belong in Christianity. It belongs in Marianism. Christians don't worship Mary or pray to Mary. Mary can't hear you when you pray to her. Mary can't help you. Only God is omniscient. Mary wasn't taken into heaven. That's an invention of the Catholic Church. Mary was a virgin until after the birth of Christ but she had other sons and daughters from Joseph. It's bizarre how the Catholic Church teaches that Mary remained a virgin for her entire life.
(Matthew 1:24-25 NIV) When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. {25} But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.
(Matthew 13:55-56 NIV) "Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? {56} Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"