‘Legends of the Blessed Virgin’ by J. Collin de Plancy; 1852; Chapter 3 – ‘THE COUNCIL OF EPHESUS.…

[Collin de Plancy – XVIII-XIX Century AD; Demonologist – Converted to the Catholic Faith]
"THE following is more properly a page from ecclesiastical history than a legend. But we have thought that a rapid sketch of the council held at Ephesus might occupy a most appropriate place in a volume devoted to the relation of the wonders wrought through the intercession of the ever Messed " Mother of God." The council, in confirming this sublime title to the Blessed Virgin, has taught us that we can never conceive too high a notion of the power and majesty of her to whom we fly in our necessities.
In the fifth century, whilst illustrious doctors were contending against Arianism, and all the other little sects which attacked the impregnable rock on which is placed the chair of Peter, there appeared among the defenders of the Church, a man of great merit, powerful in speech, rich in learning, and honoured for the austerity of his life ; he was called Nestorius, and became patriarch of Constantinople …More