Maris was the Etruscan god of agriculture later associated with the Roman war/agricultual god Mars.
Maris was also a major character on the television showFrasier. She was the wife of David Hyde Pierce's character Niles Crane, before they eventually divorced but she continued resurfacing, even being arrested for murder in the show's 11th and final season.
The interesting thing about this character was that she was never seen. Despite the fact that we knew so much about her, we never met Maris. At the beginning of the 11th season, the producers dropped hints that they may reveal her in the final episode, but ultimately didn't - possibly because it would have been too hard to find any actress who could embody the hundreds of crazy things we knew about the character.
Mary's Divine motherhood is based on the teaching of the Gospels, on the writings of the Fathers, and on the express definition of the Church.
Mary behaved in the upper room in Jerusalem as she had behaved in the grotto at Bethlehem; in Bethlehem she had carried for the Infant Jesus, in Jerusalem she nurtured the infant Church.
Mary is there drawn with the Divine Infant in her lap, she with hands extended in prayer, he with his hand in the attitude of blessing.
And one of the most important women in that story is Mary, of course, and that's why it's worth hearing her voice in a fresh way.
One of the reasons that Mary has maintained her popularity is that there were all the makings in the biblical text for a fascinating story, and yet with much of the detail missing.
In Egypt a shrine of Isis was deliberately and self-consciously re-created as a shrine of Mary.
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