“When I remember the disobedience of Eve, I weep. But when I view the fruit of Mary, I am again renewed. Deathless by descent, invisible through beauty, before the ages light of light; of God the Father were You begotten; being Word and Son of God, You did take on flesh from Mary the Virgin, in order that You may renew afresh Adam fashioned by Your holy hand"

(St. Gregory the Wonder-Worker, Homily On the Mother of God, I).