The new book a metropolitan Иларион devoted to the "secret of Mother" of God - Her character in Scripture, sources of Her honouring in the first centuries of christianity and development of this honouring during all first millennium of existence of Church.When did christians begin to pray to Virgin to Maria? When did the first Theotokion holidays appear? When in Her honour did begin to build temples? How and when were studies about приснодевстве our Ladies? As did the Theotokion iconography develop? What do we hear about Virgin Maria from раннехристианских apocryphas, from compositions of fathers of Church, from liturgical texts? On these and the great number of other questions answers the real book.On the basis of enormous amount of sources - Greek, Latin and Syrian - the author of book shows, as a "secret of Mother" of God opened up in life of Church. On the scope of material this book on our Lady does not have analogues in to Russian theological literature.A publishing design is stored in the format of PDF A4.