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Latria, lā-trī′a, n. the kind of supreme worship lawfully offered to God alone—opposed to Dulia, that given to saints and angels, and to Hyperdulia, that given to the Virgin.

I find it difficult to reconcile the sublime and enrapt devotion to God which inspires them, with the minute rules of our order, the details of scholastic casuistry, and the precise directions as to the measure of worship and honour, Dulia, Hyperdulia, and Latria to be paid to the various orders of heavenly beings, which make prayer often seem as perplexing to me as the ceremonial of the imperial court would to a peasant of the Thuringian forest.

Hyperdulia is reserved for the Virgin alone; and latria is given to God and to each person of the Trinity.

Hyperdulia, species of reverence, 2352 c.

Already the cult of the Virgin�Mariolatry it has been called by dissidents, although the Church uses the word hyperdulia, the special veneration distinguished from latria, worship due to God alone�already Mary's veneration was widespread.