In the Catholic Church, we reserve latria, Greek for supreme worship, to God alone. But to Mary we give “the highest form of reverence to a created being, a veneration called hyperdulia.” (Zia 84) In fact, St. Joseph, Mary's spouse, is given the first place of veneration after Mary, known as
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In the Catholic Church, we reserve latria, Greek for supreme worship, to God alone. But to Mary we give “the highest form of reverence to a created being, a veneration called hyperdulia.” (Zia 84) In fact, St. Joseph, Mary's spouse, is given the first place of veneration after Mary, known as