Mary, the mother of Jesus is known in Christianity by many different titles, epithets, invocations, and several names associated with places.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Byzantine icon, possibly 13th or 14th century
Dormition of the Mother of God 10th-century ivory plaque, Cluny
Madonna and Child among Ethiopian saints, Ethiopia, mid-17th-century
Copy of Our Lady of Mercy from Lwów Cathedral before which John II Casimir Vasa first made vows to Mary, "Queen of Poland and Lithuania in 1656
Theotokos
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Theotokos is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus, used especially in Eastern Christianity. The usual Latin translations are Dei Genitrix or Deipara. Common English translations are "Mother of God" or "Go
An icon of the Theotokos of Kazan.
Byzantine mosaic of the enthroned Theotokos, Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, c. AD 560.
A mural in the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière in Lyon depicting Cyril of Alexandria defending his doctrine of one-nature in Christ and the term Theotokos at Ephesus, 431 AD. On the throne is the Virgin Mary and child Jesus.
The formerly presumed earliest depiction of the Virgin in the Catacomb of Priscilla, ca. 230–240