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Theodora as Empress has associated herself with the Virgin Mary. She was hailed as ‘Theotokus’, God-Bearer and the Christian Council in Ephesus has decreed her to be the Mother of God.
Justinian and Theodora presided over the Imperial Court in Ephesus as if it was the court of judgement in heaven. He was God and she was the Virgin Mary.
The disciple Paul visited Ephesus and found a more liberated kind of woman The Ephesus women did not feel compelled to raise children.
Without the pressure to have sex, women’s lives were transformed. Now they could be guardians, not just of sexual, but of divine love.
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