Why do they call mother Mary virgin Mary?

Answer 1

She is the only woman who gave birth while still a virgin

Answer 2

Because most christian denominations believe she was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus. I.e. they believed Mary did not conceive Jesus the usual way -- i.e. by sexual intercourse -- but that Mary conceived Jesus by the Power of the Holy Ghost (parthenogenesis by divine miracle).

Catholic, Orthodox Anglo-Catholic and some other Christians she remained a Virgin her whole life.

Most protestants believe she did not stay a virgin after Jesus but had other children.

There are a few protestants who do not believe she was a virgin even when she conceived Jesus.

Non-religious people probably do not believe she was a virgin as it is impossible (without divine miracle) to become pregnant without having sex.

Answer 3

* Catholics believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary remained a virgin her entire life, and conceived Our Blessed Lord through the action of the Holy Spirit, and not through carnal relations, as evidenced by contested interpretation of the Bible.

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Protestants believe that the Virgin Mary was a virgin when she became pregnant with and gave birth to Jesus, but that she began a normal marriage with her husband thereafter, as evidenced by the Bible's explicit references to Jesus' brothers and sisters:

Mark 6:3 Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.

Matthew 13:55-56 "Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"

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Catholic AnswerOf course that is because the only thing that protestants read is the King James Version of the Bible, not realizing that the terms brothers and sisters are used in Aramaic in the first century for all kinds of relatives. You can see this even centuries before when the Bible calls Lot Abraham's brother when we know that he was Abraham's nephew. There are many other examples, we know that Mary only bore one child, and that the child was God. To suggest that the Blessed Virgin gave up her virginity after bearing God is kind of blasphemous and indicates a narrow mindset that can't encompass virginity dedicated to the Lord, and then twisting Scripture verses to mean something that they were never intended to mean. Keep in mind that the Catholic Church was around before the Bible was written, and that everything written in the Bible was written by Catholics and approved by the Catholic Church.

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from A Biblical Defense of Catholicism, by Dave Armstrong, Sophia Institute Press, © 2003

The Perpetual virginity of Mary

Pope Paul IV, in his Constitution, Cum Quorumdam Hominum, of 1555, expressed the constant teaching of the Catholic Church concerning both the virgin birth of Jesus Christ and the perpetual virginity of Mary:

We question and admonish all those who . . . have asserted, taught, and believed . . . that our Lord . . . was not conceived from the Holy Spirit according to the flesh in the womb of the Blessed Mary ever Virgin, but, as other men, from the see of Joseph . . . or that the same Blessed Virgin Mary is not truly the mother of God and did not retrain her virginity intact before the birth, in the birth, and perpetually after the birth. (In Neuner and Dupuis, The Christian Faith, 217. See CCC, pars 484-486, 496-498, 502-506, 510, 723 (for the virgin birth); pars 499-501, 507, 510, 721 (for the perpetual virginity of Mary))

The Greek word for brother in the New Testament is adelphos. The well-known Protestant linguistic reference An Expository Dictionary of the New Testament Words defines it as follows:

1. Male children of the same parents . . .

2. Male descendants of the same parents, Acts 7:23, 26; Hebrews 7:5 . . .

4. People of the same nationality, Acts 3:17, 22; Romans 9:3 . . .

5. Any man, a neighbor, Luke 10:29; Matthew 5:22, 7:3;

6. Persons united by a common interest, Matthew 5:47;

7. Persons united by a common calling, Revelation 22:9;

8. Mankind, Matthew 25:40; Hebrews 2:17;

9. The disciples, and so, by implication, all believers, Matthew 28:10; John 20:17;

10. Believers, apart from sex, Matthew 23:8; Acts 1:15; romans 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 1:4; Revelation 19:10 (the word sisters is used of believers, only in 1 Timothy 5:2) . . . . (Vine, An Expository Dictionary of New testament Words, Vol. 1, 154-155.)

It Is evident, therefore, from the range of possible definitions of adelphos, that Jesus' "brothers" need not necessarily be siblings of Jesus on linguistic grounds, as many commentators, learned and unlearned, seem to assume uncritically. Be examining the use of adelphos and related words in Hebrew, and by comparing Scripture with Scripture ("exegesis"), one can determine that most sensible explanation of all the biblical date taken collectively. Many examples prove that adelphos has a very wide variety of meanings:

In the King James Version, Jacob is called the "brother" of his Uncle Laban (Gen. 29:15; 29:10). The same thing occurs with regard to Lot and Abraham (Gen. 14:14; 11:26-27). The Revised Standard Version uses "kinsman" at 29:15 and 14:14.

Use of brother or brethren for mere kinsmen: Deuteronomy 23:7; 2 Samuel 1:26; 1 Kings 9:14, 20:32; 2 Kings 10:13-14; Jeremiah 24:9; Amos 1:9).

In Luke 2:41-51, ... it is fairly obvious that Jesus is the only child....

Jesus himself uses brethren in the larger sense: Matthew 23:8, 23:1; 12:49-50.

The term Firstborn means pre-eminent and nowhere assumes later siblings, etc.

Answer 4

Because she gave birth to Jesus, but she was a virgin. She did not "know" Joseph before Jesus was born. It was (and will always be) the only virgin birth.