Cerva Madriana

 The Madrians set about bringing back worship of the Goddess and from everything I have learned about the first group, worked within a Catholic frame and started with the apparition of Lourdes; their interpretation was it was not Mary, but the Goddess reaching out to once again connect and 'bring back the truth' per the Madrians. This is seen in their first dating system in their publication 'The Coming Age' where they date the year as Apres Lourdes . They utilized images of Mary for devotional purposes, and the statue outside of their house in Ireland was of the Mary of Lourdes. They later brought forward, as they worked more within a Traditionalist mindset, the importance of the concept of 'living stream' imagery and thus felt it most appropriate to use Marian iconography in worship, being the one remaining image (in their interpretation) of the Goddess down through the years in Western civilization. This was in turn, incorporated into their attempts at a ...