Marianist
English
Etymology
Marian + -ist
Noun
Marianist (plural Marianists)
- (Roman Catholicism) A member of the Society of Mary, a congregation of Roman Catholic brothers and priests who look to the Virgin Mary as a model of faith and spirituality.
- 1999, Michael W. Cuneo, The Smoke of Satan, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 179:
- And Catholic Marianists, for their part, have looked for ultimate authority instead in the miraculous realm of mystical visions and end-time prophecy. Mainly because of their passionate commitment to anti-abortion activism, Catholic conservatives have thus far wielded a far greater public presence than either separatists or Marianists.
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