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  • Mr. Lidderdale was so lax as to permit his nephew to frequent the services of the Reverend Stephen Ogilvie at Meade Cantorum, where every excess such as incense, lighted candles, mariolatry and creeping to the cross is openly practised.

    The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

  • What Comfort preaches is a sort of mellowed mariolatry, a humorless exaltation of woman, a flashy effort to turn

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • For all your mariolatry, you were full of "der Geist der stets verneint."

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

  • Hagiolatry was quite as much in vogue among the priesthood in medieval times as mariolatry has since been the special characteristic of the

    Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers William Alexander Clouston 1869

  • 'Lourdes represents everything about Roman Catholicism that the Protestant Reformation ejected, including apparitions, mariolatry and the veneration of saints.

    Per Christum Catholic Blog 2008

  • On this fact hypothesis I remark that, if the shipwrecked foreigners were educated men, or only possessed of such Scriptural knowledge as was then imparted to the commonality of laymen, it is morally impossible to conceive that a Spaniard of the sixteenth century should confine his instruction to some of the leading events of the Old Testament, and be totally silent upon the Christian dispensation, and the cruciolatry, mariolatry, and hagiolatry of that day.

    Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends 1887

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  • Excessive worship of the virgin Mary.

    August 13, 2013