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Virgin Mary
Mary was the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus Christ, who was conceived within her by the Holy Spirit when she was a virgin. She is often called the “Virgin Mary,”. She was born in Jerusalem, the daughter of Joachim and Ann. In the Catholic faith, her feast day is celebrated on September 8.
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What is the feast day of Mary Mother of God?
1 January - Mary, Mother of God 21 January - Our Lady of Altagracia 23 January - Espousal of the Virgin Mary 24 January - Madonna del Pianto (Our Lady of Tears) 2 February - Purification of Mary 2 February - Virgen de la Candelaria 4 February - Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt 11 February - Our Lady of Lourdes 12 February - Madonna del Pilerio 25 March - Annunciation by Saint Gabriel 27 March - Our Lady of Workers 24 April - Our Lady of Bonaria 25 April - Our Lady of Good Counsel (at Genazzano) 26 April - Our Lady of Good Counsel (general calendar) 13 May - Our Lady of Fatima 13 May - Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament 24 May - Mary, Help of Christians 31 May - Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces 31 May - Visitation 3 June - Our Lady of the Holy Letter 9 June - Mary, Virgin Mother of Grace 27 June - Our Lady of Perpetual Help 2 July - Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 16 July - Our Lady of Mount Carmel 17 July - Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2 August - Our Lady of the Angels 5 August - Our Lady of the Snow 5 August - Our Lady of Copacabana 13 August - Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners 15 August - Assumption into Heaven 15 August - Virgen de la Candelaria 21 August - Our Lady of Knock 22 August - Immaculate Heart of Mary 22 August - Queenship of Mary 8 September - Nativity of Mary 8 September - Our Lady of Charity 8 September - Our Lady of Meritxell 8 September - Our Lady of Covadonga 8 September - Our Lady of Victories 12 September - Most Holy Name of Mary 15 September - Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows 24 September - Our Lady of Mercy 24 September - Our Lady of Walsingham 1 October - Holy Protection of the Mother of God 7 October - Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary 11 October - Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary 12 October - Our Lady of Pilar 16 October - Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary 11 November - Patronage of Our Lady 21 November - Presentation of Mary at the Temple 2 December - Our Lady of Liesse 2 December - Our Lady, Cause of Our Joy 8 December - Mary's Immaculate Conception 10 December - Our Lady of Loreto 12 December - Our Lady of Guadalupe 16 December - Our Lady of Madia 18 December - Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Moveable Feasts The Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin - Friday in Passion Week Our Lady of Solitude - Holy Saturday Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles- Saturday after Ascension Our Lady, Health of the Sick - Saturday before the last Sunday in August Our Lady of Consolation- Saturday after the Feast of Saint Augustine (28 August) Mary, Mother of Divine Providence- Saturday before 3rd Sunday of November
Who did Mary Jesus' mother live with after the Crucifixion?
Our Blessed Lord certainly looked after His Mother and He gave her into St. John's care while He hung on the Cross. Mary lived with John, as it was to his care that Jesus entrusted her. She lived in Ephesis, we think, until she was assumed into heaven at the end of her life.
St. John.
What is the Virgin Mary tattoo mean?
To most, especially Mexicans/Hispanics, she represents the only one u can count on in hardships. To others, they want to honor the Mother of God in such a way they never forget. To a small amount of people, she's just a trend :(. To Catholics it's a no-brainer that its dedication and devotion.
Was the Blessed Virgin Mary the first wife of Joseph?
Nowhere in the Bible is it suggested that Joseph had already been married before marrying Mary, and there is no extra-biblical evidence of this, or that he was a widower. A later Christian tradition, that Joseph was a widower, grew up because the Bible talks of Jesus having several brothers and some sisters. Some Christians were uncomfortable with this, because it meant that Mary had sex after the birth of Jesus: sex suggesting defilement to the early Christians. This is an improbable explanation, as the apostle Paul met James, brother of Jesus. If this occurred in the 50s CE, as traditionally accepted, then for James to be the oldest brother he must have been at least 70 years old - at a time when few commoners survived beyond their fifties. And Paul's epistles do not suggest that James was an elderly man when Paul met him. Another tradition holds that the brothers and sisters were not really biological siblings, but were instead cousins of Jesus.
Being the mother of Jesus Christ is the main thing. She is also known as the wife of Saint Joseph, the Queen of Heaven, and the Mother of God.
Should you worship Virgin Mary?
Of course not! in the bible it says The only way to get to heaven is through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Catholics do not worship the Virgin Mary as worship is reserved only for God. We do, however, honor and venerate Mary as the Mother of God.
What healing miracles have happened at Lourdes?
AnswerThere have been uncounted miracles at Lourdes over the years. For the most part these are miracles which cannot be seen - spiritual and mental healings. However, the most amazing part, since the very beginning, has been the physical healings, of which there have been literally thousands. Because of skeptics and others who are wont to disparage this, the Church has been very cautious about proclaiming real miracles, and the unbelievable strictness of the requirements for a "complete physical healing miracle" mean that very few are actually accounted miracles on the Church's official lists: for the miracle to be recorded by the Church, it must be completely unexpected, the patient must be taking no medications or other treatments which might have effected the cure; the cure must be total and lasting, and totally unexplainable. Of the nearly 7,000 recorded miracles, only 67 have been validated as meeting all of the Vatican's stringent requirements. (See the third link at the bottom) But if you talk to any serious pilgrim who has gone to Lourdes with a real problem for healing, 90% of the time they will tell you that, for them, they had a real healing somehow. The 67 cases are indications beyond any possible skeptic, proving that Our Blessed Lady is indeed praying to God to work these miracles, and everyone who has gone and asked God for healing is touched in some way. Some of the cures have been inexplicitly worked on non-believers who weren't even aware of where they were.
Is Madonna another name for the Virgin Mary?
The title of Madonna is normally one of the titles given to the Virgin Mary.
from Radio Replies, by Fathers Rumble and Carty, 1942, vol 2
670 To my Protestant mind your worship of Mary is little short of idolatry.
That can only be because you have no understood Catholic doctrine on the subject. The Creator alone is God. Mary is as much a creature as any other human being. But whilst she is as much a creature as we are, we have not been honored by God nearly as much as she.
671. Does not the elevation of Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, to a rank quasi-divine, find an illuminating analogue in the ancient Egyptian cult which gave Isis the divine rank of Mother of Heaven?
Firstly, Mary has not been elevated by the Catholic Church to a rank of quasi-divine, or even remotely divine. In Catholic theology she falls as far short of divinity as I do, and that's infinitely. Secondly, there is no true analogue between the historical Mother of Christ and the purely mythological Isis, and still less can any illiminatino be derived from a comparison of the two.
672. Cathlicism says Mary is omnipotent in power and infinite in mercy.
It does not say that Mary is omnipotent in power and infinite in mercy. It says that her prayer and intercession have a special efficacy in winning for usthe protection of the Omnipotent power of God and His infinite mercy.
Why is the Virgin Mary's mantle blue?
predominant color of the earth - color of the sky and the sea
It also symbolizes purity.
The above answers are often quoted but many believe them to be an urban myth. There is really quite a practical reason why Mary's mantle is always depicted as blue in art. Obviously no one knows what colour Mary's clothes were in actual life, but we are certain there were NOT blue or purple as this colour dye was particularly expensive in those days and rederved for royalty. This is confirmed at Christ's crucifixion where the soldiers placed a purple robe on Jesus and mocked him calling him 'king' of the Jews. Also, in Acts, the church leader Lydia, a wealthy merchant, dealt in purple cloth - only mentioned as it was a very unusual profession - especially for a woman.
In art, therefore, Mary had to stand out from the crowd, ordinary people that wore normal colours of brown, yellow or red, as she was seen as someone special by the church because she was the mother of Jesus himself. In the middle ages, paint pigments were obtained from either different coloured clays (like yellow and brown) or ground up minerals (like cinnabar for red or lead oxide for white). However, the only blue pigment possible in those days was a ground up precious stone called ultramarine, which cab still be found in expensive jewellery today. Nowadays the pigment ultramarine is synthetically made and is cheap, but then it was extremely expensive. In fact it was several times more expensive than gold. Therefore it was THIS pigment that was reserved for Mary's robe alone and nothing else in medieval religious art. Jesus was often depicted in gold leaf but Mary in blue ultramarine to show her importance.
In Wales where I come from there is an outdoor museum where buildings have been re-erected there to show life in the country over the centuries. One building is a medieval church that boasts a huge restored frieze around the walls of the church. The entire frieze depicts pictures from the Bible and is painted using pigments only found in medieval times. Most of the frieze is surrounded in pure gold leaf and the characters are painted in natural colours. However, there is one tiny picture of Mary in the frieze, whose robe is painted in ultramarine. The curator said that that one tiny patch of pure ultramarine paint cost more than the whole frieze full of gold leaf.
Therefore, Mary is depicted in art wearing blue as she is deemed by the early church as being very special indeed.
What are the secrets of Fatima?
The message of Fatima is the message of the Gospel. It was an appearance of Our Blessed Mother coming to call us back to prayer, penance, and devotion to the Immaculate Heart. She, as ever, is pointing to her Son, and showing us the way to salvation. For a brief overview, see the third link below, the second link contains a book explaining the entire history, and the first link is the Vatican's official overview.
Where was Elizabeth when the Virgin Mary visited her?
Scripture only mentions that Elizabeth lived in the 'hill country of Judea' but does not mention the name of the town. It is traditionally identified as Ein Karem, on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. That would put it about 91 miles from Mary's home in Nazareth which would have taken several days for Mary to traverse on foot.
The answer to this question comes down to Jewish family genealogies and their accuracy. In his "Daily Bible Illustrations" Dr Kitto writes:"The fact that the descent of Jesus from David could be established by registers , and the presence of two such minute pedigrees as those of Matthew and Luke, evince that the Jews were, up to this time, still careful in the registration of family descents....The rabbins [sic] assure us that [after the captivity] they became still more careful in registering their genealogies; with immediate reference, doubtless, to the expectation of the Messiah; but with the ulterior object ...of preserving means for establishing the exact fulfillment of the predictions respecting his parentage. That such existed to even a later date is shown by Josephus, who declares that he traced his own descent in the trie of Levi by public registers; and he expressly informs us that, however dispersed and dispossessed his nation were, they never failed to have exact genealogical tables prepared from the authentic documents which were kept at Jerusalem; and that in all their sufferings they were particularly careful to preserve these tables, which were renewed from time to time."
(From page 76 of "Daily Bible Illustrations - The Life and Death of Our Lord " section "29th Week, Third Day" by Dr Kitto, exact date unknown but possibly 1871.)
The Bible tells us David's wife Bathsheba had 4 sons, 2 of whom were Nathan and Solomon:-
1Ch 3:5 ...[David's]wife Bathsheba, daughter of Ammiel, bore him four sons: Shimea, Shobab,Nathan, and Solomon.
Solomon became king, and among his descendants was Joseph, (the husband of Mary the mother of Jesus, and Jesus' stepfather); his genealogy is given in Matthew chapter 1:-
Mat 1:7 [Good News Bible] From David to the time when the people of Israel were taken into exile in Babylon, the following ancestors are listed: David, Solomon (his mother was the woman who had been Uriah's wife [ie Bathsheba]), Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, and Jehoiachin and his brothers.Mat 1:12 From the time after the exile in Babylon to the birth of Jesus, the following ancestors are listed: Jehoiachin, Shealtiel, Zerubbabel, Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Zadok, Achim, Eliud, Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, and Joseph, who married Mary, the mother of Jesus, who was called the Messiah.
However, his wife Mary traced her lineage back to Solomon's brother Nathan:-
Luk 3:23-31 CEV When Jesus began to preach, he was about thirty years old. Everyone thought he was the son of Joseph. But his family went back through Heli, [v. 24] Matthat, Levi, Melchi, Jannai, Joseph, [v. 25] Mattathias, Amos, Nahum, Esli, Naggai, [v. 26] Maath, Mattathias, Semein, Josech, Joda; [v. 27] Joanan, Rhesa, Zerubbabel, Shealtiel, Neri, [v. 28] Melchi, Addi, Cosam, Elmadam, Er, [v. 29] Joshua, Eliezer, Jorim, Matthat, Levi; [v. 30] Simeon, Judah, Joseph, Jonam, Eliakim, [v. 31] Melea, Menna, Mattatha, Nathan, David,
Regarding these genealogies in Matthew and Luke, Dr William Smith says in 'Smith's Bible Dictionary' (1884) in the article 'Genealogy of Jesus Christ', that:-.1. They are both the genealogies of Joseph, that is, of Jesus Christas the reputed and legal son of Joseph and Mary.2. The genealogy of St. Matthew is Joseph's genealogy as legal successor to the throne of David. St. Luke's is Joseph's private Genealogy, exhibiting his real birth as David's son, and thus, showing why he was heir to Solomon's crown. The simple principle that one evangelist exhibits that genealogy which contained the successive heir to David's and Solomon's throne, while the other exhibits the paternal stem of him who was the heir, explains all the anomalies of the two pedigrees, their agreements as well as their discrepancies, and the circumstance of there being two at all.3. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was in all probability the daughter of Jacob, and first cousin to Joseph, her husband. ...(Godet, Lange and many others take the ground that St. Luke gives the genealogy of Mary, rendering Luk_3:23thus: Jesus"being (as was suppposed), the son of Joseph, (but, in reality), the son of Heli." In this case, Mary, as declared in the Targums, was the daughter of Heli, and Heli was the grandfather of Jesus.Mary's name was omitted because "ancient sentiment did not comport with the mention of the mother as the genealogical link." So we often find in the Old Testament, the grandson called the son. This ... shows that Jesuswas not merely the legal but the actual descendant of David; and it would be very strange that in the gospel accounts, where so much is made of Jesusbeing the son and heir of David and of his kingdom [that] his real descent from David should not be given. )
In his "Daily Bible Illustrations" Dr Kitto says:-"... But the two genealoogies are materially different. They coincide until David, when Matthew takes the ruling line [ie of Solomon]; whereas Luke takes the ...line by David's son Nathan....Matthew makes Joseph the son of Jacob,whereas Luke represents him as Heli, or Eli. He could not naturally have been the son of both these persons [thus] Jacob and Heli are different names for the same person. They are obviously two different genealogies from the common ancestor David.....[T]he genealogy in Matthew is that of Joseph, and the one in Luke that of Mary - the former being the legal, and the latter the real genealogy of Jesus.....
Furthermore, Mary is always called by the Jews 'the daughter of Heli' and by the early Christian writers 'the daughter of Joakim and Anna'. Now, Joakim and Eliakim (as different names in Hebrew for God) are sometimes interchanged; so that Heli or Eli is an abridged form of Eliakim interchanged for Joakim."
(From page 77 of "Daily Bible Illustrations - The Life and Death of Our Lord " section "29th Week, Third Day" by Dr Kitto, exact date unknown but possibly 1871.)
The Bible says in Luke 3:23 that Mary's father was Heli, and he was the "father of Mary and father-in-law of Joseph in the line Jesus Christ's royal ancestry " (From
It is known from other sources that her father was also called Joachim, and her mother was Anna:-Little is known of Mary's personal history from the New Testament. Her parents are not named in the canonical texts, but in apocryphal sources, widely accepted by later tradition, were Joachim and Anne. She was a relative of Elizabeth, wife of the priest Zechariah of the priestly division of Abijah, who herself was of the lineage of Aaron and so of the tribe of Levi. In spite of this, some speculate that Mary, like Joseph, to whom she was betrothed, was of the House of David and so of the tribe of Judah, and that the genealogy presented in Luke was hers, while Joseph's is given in Matthew."
Saint Joachim ... was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and therefore is ascribed the title of "forebearer of God", in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. The canonical Gospel accounts in the New Testament do not explicitly name either of Mary's parents, but some argue that the genealogy in Luke 3 is that of Mary rather than Joseph, thereby naming her father as Eli. ... The story of Sts Joachim and Anne appears in the apocryphal Gospel of James.
To summarize, the Bible tells us Mary's father was Heli (aka Eli, Eliakim, Joakim, Joachim) and both an apocryphal gospel and Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican church tradition tell us her parents were Joachim and Anne.
Was Mary the Mother of Jesus ever baptised?
Jesus himself was baptized. I am sure he would have ensured his mother was also. However, I believe others can add to this. I just do not remember reading anything pertaining to Her baptism.
Yes. Acts 1:13, 14. Acts 2 says they were all baptized in the name of Jesus.
Who are the parents of Mary and Martha?
There is nothing in either scripture or tradition that answers that question.
What event in Lourdes took place?
Catholic Answer The miracle at Lourdes was initially the spring appearing and the numerous miraculous healings, since then thousands of miracle healings have been attested to by an independent medical bureau.
Throughout the past 2,000 years of history, Our Blessed Lady has appeared numerous times, with the same message every time: that people need to repent of their sins, believe in her Son, pray, and reform their lives. When Our Blessed Lady does appear, it is used to an innocent who has, as yet, been untouched by the "world, the flesh, and the Devil." Lourdes was one of these incidents. At Lourdes, Our Blessed Lady appeared to Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, a young French girl, who later became a religious sister. One of the outstanding differences with her appearance at Lourdes were the spring, which was not there before, and the healing miracles which have occurred there right from the beginning.
Because of these miracles, people continue to pilgrimage to Lourdes and pray for the Virgin's intercession.
There have been uncounted miracles at Lourdes over the years. For the most part these are miracles which cannot be seen - spiritual and mental healings. However, the most amazing part, since the very beginning, has been the physical healings, of which there have been literally thousands. Because of skeptics and others who are wont to disparage this, the Church has been very cautious about proclaiming real miracles, and the unbelievable strictness of the requirements for a "complete physical healing miracle" mean that very few are actually accounted miracles on the Church's official lists: for the miracle to be recorded by the Church, it must be completely unexpected, the patient must be taking no medications or other treatments which might have effected the cure; the cure must be total and lasting, and totally unexplainable. Of the nearly 7,000 recorded miracles, only 67 have been validated as meeting all of the Vatican's stringent requirements. (See the third link at the bottom) But if you talk to any serious pilgrim who has gone to Lourdes with a real problem for healing, 90% of the time they will tell you that, for them, they had a real healing somehow. The 67 cases are indications beyond any possible skeptic, proving that Our Blessed Lady is indeed praying to God to work these miracles, and everyone who has gone and asked God for healing is touched in some way. Some of the cures have been inexplicitly worked on non-believers who weren't even aware of where they were.
What day is the feast of the assumption of Mary?
August l5, it has always been this date. Assumption is one of only two major Church holidays that falls in the Summer Months ( the other being the Transfiguration- August 6Th) There are some in June, but before the Solstice, so not strictly speaking, summer ( calendrically)
What are the 5 places in the world named after Mary the mother of Jesus?
# Mariefred, Sweden # Los Angeles, California (named for Our Lady, Quenn of the Angels) # Santa Maria, California # Maryland # Maryville, Tennessee
There you go! Hope it helps!
-Bre D.
How did Mary get the name Our Lady of Sorrows?
Because of her role as the Mother Of God.
1)Simeon prophesied that "a sword would pierce her Own Heart", in regards to the Messianic Mission of her Son.
2)St. Joseph had to take her & her Son into Egypt, to save Them Both, from King Herod the Great.
3)The Loss of the Christ Child in Jerusalem, which lasted for 3 days.
4)Watching her Son Carry His Cross.
5)Watching the Crucifixion.
6)Seeing Her Son's Body Being Taken down from the Cross.
7)The Burial of Her Son.
What is the feast day of the Immaculate Concepcion?
The feast of the Immaculate Conception is the feast day and Catholic holy day of obligation which celebrates the conception of the Blessed Mother of God. Normally this is celebrated on December 8th. It is not the conception of Jesus Christ, but the conception of Mary, free from sin since the moment of her conception.
Why is the Blessed Virgin Mary especially honored by Catholics?
Mary was a good and morally excellent woman. She did all that she could to keep the commandments. Worshiped the one and only true God, helped those in need and made herself available to all who needed advice. Was a good listener and thought of others rather than self.
Jesus, while dying on the cross bequeathed the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. John with the words, "behold your mother" and bequeathed John to her with the words, "Behold your son". In doing this, St. John stands for us, and Our Blessed Lord bequeathed all of us to Mary as her children.
We are all called to model her in her poverty, chastity, and obedience:
Every person is called to be poor with the poor Christ, to give up what he does not need to help his poor neighbor. As St. John the Baptist put it, "if you have two cloaks and your neighbor has none, then you give one to him.
We are all called to chastity in our state of life, single people are called to complete chastity, married people are called to be chaste in that they only have relations with their spouse and never in a selfish way.
Finally, we must all be obedient to God, to His church, to our lawful superiors (country, elected officials, boss, parents) and to be obedient to each other seeing Christ in each and every person in front of us.
In all of this we model the Blessed Virgin, who was poor, literally, with Christ; who was chaste her entire life; and who was the model of obedience to God's will for her beginning with her "Be it done unto me according to Your Word". We ask her for her intercession with her son for strength and for her guidance in doing so.
