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Maro, Prophet of the Gentiles

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Maro, Prophet of the Gentiles in the Middle Ages, the name under which the Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was commemorated at the Christmas Mass at Rouen and elsewhere; the allusion is to the passage in his Eclogues which was taken as an unconscious but divinely inspired prophecy of Christ.

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