Origen: Mary, Mother of All

“NO one may understand the meaning of the Gospel [of St. John], if he has not rested on the breast of Jesus and received Mary from Jesus, to be his mother also.”

~Origen (184 – 254 A.D.): In Jn. 1, 6.

Madonna of Humility, by Fra Angelico.
Tempera and gold on panel, c. 1418; The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.