O Virgin most pure, wholly unspotted, O Mary, Mother of God, Queen of the universe, you are above all saints, the hope of the elect and the joy of all the blessed. It is you who have reconciled us ...

If Mary is not the Mother of God, then the Bible in this verse would condone idolatry. Nestorius, the patriarch of Constantinople, in 428 A.D. declared that Mary could not be the Mother of God ...