St. Pope Siricius I (334-399) | WEST

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Letters

St. Pope Siricius I, Letter to Bishop Anysius (392)¹

• Holy Mary, Mother of God

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Surely, we cannot deny that regarding the sons of Mary the statement is justly censured, and your holiness rightly abhors it, that from the same virginal womb from which Christ was born, another offspring was brought forth. For neither would the Lord Jesus have chosen to be born of a Virgin if he had judged she would be so incontinent that with the seed of human copulation she would pollute the generative chamber of the Lord’s body, the palace of the eternal king.

Footnotes

1. Jimmy Akins, The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church (San Diego: Catholic Answers Press, 2010), 352-53. ↩︎