Mary, mother of Jesus
Mother of Jesus Christ · Religious Figures · Lived 18 BC to AD 48 · aged 65
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Something wrong?A first-century Jewish woman from Nazareth who gave birth to a child believed by billions to be divine. Venerated across Christianity as the Mother of God, revered in Islam above all women, depicted endlessly in art for two millennia - no other figure bridges so many faiths with such reach.
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Virgin and Child with angels and Sts. George and Theodore. Icon, c. 600, from Saint Catherine's Monastery.
Virgin Mary depicted by Muslim painter Hossein Nuri
The Annunciation by Eustache Le Sueur, an example of 17th century Marian art. The Angel Gabriel announces to Mary her pregnancy with Jesus and offers her white lilies.
The Virgin's first seven steps, mosaic from Chora Church, c. 12th century
The adoration of the shepherds, a nativity scene in France
Stabat Mater by Gabriel Wuger, 1868
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, Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.
My soul doth magnify the Lord:and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded:the lowliness of his handmaiden.
Do whatever he tells you.
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The Gospels of Matthew and Luke describe her as a virgin chosen by God to conceive Jesus through the Holy Spirit. She gave birth in Bethlehem, raised him with her husband Joseph in Nazareth, stood at his crucifixion in Jerusalem, and remained with the apostles after his ascension. The Bible says nothing of her later life, but Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition holds that her body was assumed into heaven at its end. Venerated since early Christianity as the holiest of saints, she became the subject of distinct dogmas - the Immaculate Conception, perpetual virginity, her role as Theotokos. Devotion took countless forms: prayers, feast days, shrines, reported apparitions, and an unbroken current in Byzantine, medieval, and Renaissance art.
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