Like all central Christian mysteries, the doctrine and the devotion to the Blessed Virgin started in seed form in Sacred Scripture and Apostolic Tradition, doctrinal seeds planted by the Divine Sower. These doctrinal and devotional seeds revealed in the Bible and Tradition then develop and blossom over time through the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the dynamic life of the Church to become the more developed and specified dogmas and doctrines which we learn today.

 

Here we want to look briefly at the beginnings of Marian truth and love from its foreshadowings in the Old Testament to its more complete revelation in the New Testament.