The New Eve is a devotional title for Mary, the mother of Jesus. Since the second century, numerous Eastern and Western Church Fathers have expressed this doctrinal idea of the new Eve as an analogy t
The tree of death and of life in the Salzburg Missal: Eve gives the representatives of the old covenant the fruit that brings sin and death from the tree of paradise. Mary, on the other hand, gives the faith hosts, the bread of life.
Glory of the Newborn Christ in Presence of God the Father and the Holy Spirit. Detail of a ceiling painting by Daniel Gran in St. Anne's Church, Vienna. Adam and Eve are portrayed below, in chains.