Acknowledgements 

His Holiness, Bartholomeos, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

Johannes, former Archbishop of the Orthodox Church of Finland

Dr Paavo Hohti, Secretary General of The Finnish Cultural Foundation

Professor Johannes Koder, Director of the Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien

Professor Kathleen E. McVey, J. Ross Stevenson Professor of Church History, History Department, Princeton Theological Seminary

Paavo Pirttimaa, Artist (sketch of the earliest of image of Mary from the Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome)

Australian Catholic University

Australian Reseach Council