Jesus' relatives
They are numerous. The New Testament mentions them at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry as enemies of the good news, and places them with the scribes and Pharisees, sometimes showing them as distorting the reputation of Jesus.
The Mother of God is the mother of all
Saint Ephrem (306 AD - 383 AD) explains that the Virgin is the symbol of the Church, and he says that he freed his Church from physical circumcision and replacing
The church honors the Virgin Mary
The Virgin Mary has a special status among all saints, and the Orthodox venerate her as “more honorable than the Cherubim and incomparably more glorious than the Seraphim.”