[Antoninus]

For the feast day of a bishop martyred at a Church Council in AD 449 ~ Saint Flavian, archbishop of Constantinople.

[Antoninus]

GGG ping.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Ephesus seems to be the place where many travesties originated in the Roman Catholic Church. In 431 in Ephesus, where Diana was once worshipped, Mary became a new Goddess breaking the first commandment. Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia...

The status of Mary as Theotokos was a topic of theological dispute in the 4th and 5th centuries and was the subject of the decree of the Council of Ephesus of 431 to the effect that, in opposition to those who denied Mary the title Theotokos ("the one who gives birth to God") but called her Christotokos ("the one who gives birth to Christ"), Mary is Theotokos because her son Jesus is one person who is both God and man, divine and human