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==History and Background==
==Orthodox Church and the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception==
==Relevant quotes from the Fathers==
"...being Himself at once God and man, His flesh and soul were and are holy - and beyond holy. God is holy, just as He was and is and shall be, and the Virgin is immaculate, without spot or stain, and so, too, was that rib which was taken from Adam. However the rest of humanity, even though they are His brothers and kin according to the flesh, yet remained even as they were, of dust, and did not immediately become hold and sons of God."
::- St. Symeon the New Theologian, Discourse XIII in ''On the Mystical Life'', vol. 2, trans. Alexander Golitzin (SVS Press, 1996)
==Other Articles of Interest==
*[http://home.nyc.rr.com/mysticalrose/barton1.html My Belief in the Immaculate Conception Doctrine] - by Daniel Joseph Barton ([[Byzantine Catholic]])