Question: Who is often held as the model for all things holy and pure that is not Mary ?
Sentence: Thus in the first five centuries such epithets as "in every respect holy", "in all things unstained", "super-innocent", and "singularly holy" are applied to her; she is compared to Eve before the fall, as ancestress of a redeemed people; she is "the earth before it was accursed".
Answer in sentence: yes