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The Virgin Mary is known by many names, such as the Blessed Virgin, Mother Mary, Our Lady, Mother of God, Queen of Angels , Mary of Sorrows, and Queen of the Universe. Mary serves as the patron saint of all human beings, watching over them with motherly care due to her role as the mother of Jesus Christ , whom Christians believe is the world's savior.
Mary is honored as a spiritual mother to people of many faiths, including Muslim , Jewish , and New Age believers. Here's a biographical profile of Mary and a summary of her miracles :
1st century, in area of the ancient Roman Empire that are now part of Israel, Palestine, Egypt, and Turkey
January 1 (Mary, Mother of God), February 11 (Our Lady of Lourdes), May 13 (Our Lady of Fatima), May 31 (Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary), August 15 (the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary), August 22 (Queenship of Mary), September 8 (Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary), December 8 (Feast of the Immaculate Conception ), December 12 (Our Lady of Guadalupe )
Mary is considered to be the patron saint of all humanity, as well as groups that include mothers; blood donors; travelers and those who work in the travel industry (such as airplane and ship crews); cooks and those who work in the food industry; construction workers; people who make clothes, jewelry, and home furnishings; numerous places and churches worldwide; and people who are seeking spiritual enlightenment.
People have credited a vast number of miracles to God working through the Virgin Mary. Those miracles can be divided into those that were reported during her lifetime, and those that were reported afterward.
Catholics believe that when Mary was conceived, she was miraculously free of the taint of original sin that has affected every other person in history except Jesus Christ. That belief is called the miracle of the Immaculate Conception.
Muslims believe that Mary was miraculously a perfect person from the moment of her conception onward. Islam says that God gave Mary special grace when he first created her so that she could live a perfect life.
All Christians (both Catholic and Protestant) and Muslims believe in the miracle of the Virgin Birth , in which Mary conceived Jesus Christ as a virgin, through the power of the Holy Spirit. The Bible records that Gabriel , the archangel of revelation, visited Mary to inform her of God’s plan for her to serve as Jesus’ mother on Earth. Luke 1:34-35 describes part of their conversation: "'How will this be,' Mary asked the angel, 'since I am a virgin?' The angel answered, 'The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.'"
In the Quran , Mary’s conversation with the angel is described in chapter 3 (Ali Imran), verse 47: "She said: 'O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man hath touched me?' He said: 'Even so: God creates what He wills: When He has decreed a plan, He but says to it, 'Be,' and it is!"
Since Christians believe that Jesus Christ was God incarnated on earth, they consider Mary’s pregnancy and birth to be part of a miraculous process of God visiting a suffering planet to redeem it.
Catholic and Orthodox Christians believe that Mary was miraculously taken to heaven in an unusual way. Catholics believe in the miracle of the Assumption, which means that Mary didn’t die a natural human death, but was assumed both body and soul from Earth into heaven while she was still alive.
Orthodox Christians believe in the miracle of Dormition, which means that Mary did die naturally and her soul went to heaven, while her body stayed on Earth for three days before being resurrected and taken up into heaven.
People have reported many miracles happening through Mary since she went to heaven. These have included a myriad of Marian apparitions, which are times when believers say that Mary has miraculously appeared on Earth to deliver messages to encourage people to believe in God, call them to repentance, and give people healing.
Famous apparitions of Mary include those that were recorded in Lourdes, France; Fatima, Portugal; Akita , Japan; Guadalupe , Mexico; Knock, Ireland; Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Kibeho, Rwanda; and Zeitoun , Egypt.
Mary was born into a devout Jewish family in Galilee (now part of Israel) when it was part of the ancient Roman Empire. Her parents were Saint Joachim and Saint Anne , whom Catholic tradition says that angels visited separately to inform them that Anne was expecting Mary. Mary's parents dedicated her to God in a Jewish temple when she was three years old.
By the time Mary was about 12 or 13 years old, historians believe, she was engaged to Joseph, a devout Jewish man. It was during Mary’s engagement that she learned through an angelic visitation of the plans God had for her to serve as Jesus Christ's mother on Earth. Mary responded with faithful obedience to God’s plan, despite the personal challenges that it presented to her.
When Mary’s cousin Elizabeth (mother of the prophet John the Baptist) praised Mary for her faith, Mary gave a speech that has become a famous song sung in worship services, the Magnificat, which the Bible records in Luke 1:46-55: “And Mary said: ‘My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me -- holy is his name. His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation. He has performed mighty deeds with his arm; he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts. He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty. He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised our ancestors.’”
Mary and Joseph raised Jesus Christ, as well as other children, "brothers" and "sisters" whom the Bible mentions in Matthew chapter 13. Protestant Christians think that those children were Mary and Joseph’s children, born naturally after Jesus was born and Mary and Joseph then consummated their marriage. But Catholics think that they were cousins or Mary’s stepchildren from Joseph’s former marriage to a woman who had died before he became engaged to Mary. Catholics say that Mary remained a virgin during her entire life.
The Bible records many instances of Mary with Jesus Christ during his lifetime, including a time when she and Joseph lost track of him and found Jesus teaching people in a temple when he was 12 years old (Luke chapter 2), and when wine ran out at a wedding, and she asked her son to turn water into wine to help out the host (John chapter 2). Mary was near the cross as Jesus died on it for the sins of the world (John chapter 19). Immediately after the Jesus' resurrection and ascension into heaven , the Bible mentions in Acts 1:14 that Mary prayed along with the apostles and others.
Before Jesus Christ died on the cross, he asked the apostle John to take care of Mary for the rest of her life. Many historians believe that Mary later moved to the ancient city of Ephesus (which is now part of Turkey) along with John, and ended her earthly life there.
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Mother Mary lived through every gamut of emotions a mother can face and was even loyal to stay with her son as he died on the cross. Memories of young Jesus were of powerful comfort to her while she waited, as we wait, to be with Him again.
Ask someone to name a famous Mary, and he or she will almost certainly mention “Mary, mother of Jesus.” She is perhaps the most famous “Mary” in history, even an object of worship for some. Who was Mary, mother of Jesus?
“Mary was actually called Miriam, after the sister of Moses.” Why do we call her Mary ? Miriam is Hebrew, while Mary is a New Testament blend of two Greek names: Mariam and Maria. Both Miriam and Mary guarded God’s chosen leaders during infancy as worldly authorities sought to have them killed.
After Pharaoh ordered that “every Hebrew boy” be “throw[n] into the Nile” ( Exodus 1:22 ), Miriam watched over her brother where he was hidden among some reeds ( Exodus 2:4 ) and went to fetch a nurse (their mother) for the Pharaoh’s daughter ( Exodus 2:5-7 ).
Mary, with Joseph, protected Jesus from another jealous king, Herod the Great. One meaning for Miriam/Mary is “wished-for child” and both women certainly cared for important children whose safety was under threat from murderous authorities.
Miriam’s name “belongs to a family of words [...] which suggest ‘bitterness,’” because, as an older woman, she was bitter towards Moses. There is no hint of jealousy or bitterness in Mary, mother of Jesus: she was worshipful, faithful, and also courageous.
Christians see parallels between Mary and her namesake Miriam which, in retrospect, reveals the prophetic nature of Moses’s birth and his life. The Christian sees that God selected two young women to look after the two men in Scripture who led Israel out of slavery to Egypt and sin, respectively.
The prophecy of Isaiah 7:14 foretold that a woman, such as Mary, would emerge one day to give birth to Israel’s wished-for child; their Savior: “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.”
Mary, the mother of Jesus, “loved God and wanted to serve Him with all her heart.” Luke recounts how Mary was told by the angel that she would become the mother of Immanuel. “‘I am the Lord’s servant,’ Mary answered. ‘May your word to me be fulfilled’” ( Luke 1:38 ).
Jesus’ mother was probably “born in Nazareth […] during the reign of Herod the Great .” That reign lasted from 37-4 BC. She “spoke Aramaic, with a Galilean accent ( Matthew 26:73 )” and also “had contact with a multilingual world” where soldiers spoke Latin, Greek was the language of business and education, and Hebrew was the language of Jewish religious life.
She was part of the peasantry , which included skilled tradespeople, but which faced “a triple tax burden: to Rome, to Herod the Great and to the temple.” Typical family homes consisted of “three or four houses of one or two rooms each [...] built around an open courtyard, in which relatives shared an oven, a cistern and a millstone for grinding grain, and where domestic animals also lived.” Mary would have spent most of her time doing household work including strenuous physical chores.
Mary would have been married as early as 13 “in order to maximize childbearing and to guarantee virginity.” Mary lived with Joseph, Jesus, and also “James and Joseph and Judas and Simon” plus sisters who were not named in the Bible ( Mark 6:3 ).
She was a tough woman “capable of walking the hill country of Judea while pregnant, of giving birth in a stable, of making a four or five-day journey on foot to Jerusalem once a year or so,” of sleeping outside “and of engaging in daily hard labor at home.” She was probably illiterate since women rarely learned to read and write during this time, a period in which oral transmission of information was typical.
She was taught to expect the promised Messiah. “As a Jew, she had been learning about biblical prophecy her entire life.” She became “part of the fulfillment of God’s ultimate plan” when the angel declared, “You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be [...] Son of the Most High” and “will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever” ( Luke 1:31-33 ).
In Luke 1:54-55 , Mary declared, “He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised our ancestors.” Her song, said Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is “ the oldest Advent hymn .”
We don’t know much about Mary because the gospel is Jesus’ story, not hers. We might surmise that before Jesus’ resurrection , she must have been confused. After all, Jesus began His ministry by offending the people in the synagogue at Nazareth ( Luke 4 ) and He continually upset the Pharisees.
Mary believed her son was insane: “When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, ‘He is out of his mind’” ( Mark 3:21 ). Jesus said, “I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn “‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law — a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household’” ( Matthew 10:34-36 ).
While this does not point to animosity between mother and son, we see that blood did not determine family for Jesus. Exodus 20:12 says, “Honor your mother and father.” Jesus said “‘Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?’ Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother’” ( Matthew 12:48-50 ). One can imagine how hurt or even angry she might have been initially.
God’s family was broadened by adoption beyond ethnic boundaries. Paul speaks frequently of adoption by faith. “The Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship” ( Romans 8:15 ).
The Apostle John wrote it this way: “To all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God — children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God” ( John 1:12-13 ).
For a mother, who might have believed she should hold a special place in her son’s heart, the equality of Jesus’ love might have hurt deeply at first.
Later, Luke records how she “treasured up” what the shepherds reported to them ( Luke 2:19 ). She recalled how, after losing Jesus and finding him at the temple in Jerusalem, obediently learning about the Father, Jesus was likewise obedient to his earthly father. She “treasured up” this experience in her heart also.
“Mary was the only person to be present with Jesus at his birth and his earthly death.” His earthly father, Joseph, presumably died because he is not mentioned after Luke’s accounts of Jesus’ childhood.
“When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, ‘Woman, here is your son,’ and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother.’ From that time on, this disciple took her into his home” ( John 19:25-27 ).
By these words, we know that Jesus cared deeply and personally for His mother, and we see that Mary witnessed the last hours of Jesus’ life. “At that time she was probably close to 50 years old, well beyond the age at which most women in that era died.” One can only wonder at the torture she experienced watching her eldest child die, and whether the angel’s words from three decades earlier haunted or comforted her.
She might have been one of the women at the empty tomb, but these women have not been definitively identified. “Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them” encountered angels at Jesus’ empty tomb and, “told this to the apostles” ( Luke 24:10 ), but Mary mother of Jesus is not specified.
Mary was still alive when the new church emerged; Luke tells us “she was in the upper room in Jerusalem with the 11 remaining apostles” and a group of over 100 people as recorded by Luke in Acts 1:14 ,15.
After that time, history says no more about Mary the mother of Jesus. She lived through every gamut of emotions a mother can face and was even loyal to stay with her son as he died on the cross . Memories of young Jesus were of powerful comfort to her while she waited, as we wait, to be with Him again.
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Mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament
For the 1999 television film, see Mary, Mother of Jesus (film) .
"Saint Mary" and "Virgin Mary" redirect here. For other uses, see Saint Mary (disambiguation) and Virgin Mary (disambiguation) .
Maria Advocata (Hagiosoritissa) in Santa Maria in Via Lata (Rome), with the invocations "Source of Light", "Star of the Sea"
Further information: Genealogy of Jesus
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