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Madonna & Notre Dame are translations of Domina nostra. When that became common I am unsure. Tom Izbicki At 02:41 PM 11/12/2000 +0000, you wrote: >Dear Jim > >You may wish to have a look at Marina Warner, "Alone of all her sex: the >myth and cult of the Virgin Mary", Vintage, 2000, first published about >1975. >While it does not specifically answer your question, it does go into the >subject in some detail including giving Mary the title of "Aeiparthenos" at >the Council of Chalcedon and its consequences. > >Regards > >John Hall > > > This may very well be a naive or silly question, but it has never > > occurred to me before. I was reading recently a passage of Bede > > where he mentions Mary as "the Mother of God", period. He doesn't > > even mention her name. This, I believe, was always the practice in > > the Greek east and still is in the Orthodox churches and undoubtedly > > springs from the declaration of Mary as the Theotokos at the Council > > of Ephesus in 431. My question is, when did she begin to be called > > "the Virgin Mary"? And were there other appelations used during the > > Middle Ages? Other names that spring to mind are "Notre Dame" and > > "Madonna". > > Curiously, > > Jim Bugslag %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%