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What is interpreted as "Providence" by a Marian critic may legitimately be interpreted as a force of a very different kind by a Christian who has recognized the role of Mary in God’s plan.

Oh?

Too bad Mary has shown up so late in the record.

Prayers for the dead	300 AD
Making the sign of the cross	300 AD
Veneration of angels & dead saints	375 AD
Use of images in worship	375 AD
The Mass as a daily celebration	394 AD
Beginning of the exaltation of Mary; - the term “Mother of God” applied a Council of Ephesus	431 AD
Extreme Unction (Last Rites)	526 AD
Doctrine of Purgatory - Gregory	593 AD
Prayers to Mary & dead saints	600 AD
Worship of cross & images & relics	786 AD
Canonization of dead saints	995 AD
Celibacy of priesthood	1079 AD
The Rosary	1090 AD
Indulgences	1190 AD
Transubstantiation - Innocent III	1215 AD
Auricular Confession of sins to a priest	1215 AD
Adoration of the wafer (Host)	1220 AD
Cup forbidden to the people at communion	1414 AD
Purgatory proclaimed as a dogma	1439 AD
The doctrine of the Seven Sacraments confirmed	1439 AD
Tradition declared of equal authority with Bible by Council of Trent	1545 AD
Apocryphal books added to Bible	1546 AD
Immaculate Conception of Mary	1854 AD
Infallibility of the pope in matters of faith and morals proclaimed by the Vatican Council	1870 AD
Assumption of the Virgin Mary(bodily ascension into heaven shortly after her death)	1950 AD
Mary proclaimed Mother of the Church	1965 AD

Nice Chronology. Redundant. Re-read my post. In the year 130 the Bishop of Lyons, Irenaeus wrote concerning a theme common in patristic Marian reflections, that Mary was the "Second Eve":
"As Eve was seduced by the speech of an angel, so as to flee God in transgressing his word, so also Mary received the good tidings by means of the angel's speech, so as to be God within her, being obedient to this word. And though the one had disobeyed God, yet the other was drawn to obey him; that of the virgin Eve, the virgin Mary might become the advocate and as by a virgin the human race had been bound to death, by a virgin it is saved, the balance being preserved- a virgin's disobedience by a virgin' obedience." .

Have to cap this at 200...

That is a truly useful calendar.

Thank you.