Site introduction

Mary the Mother of Jesus

• introduction
• her daily life
• map of Mary's places
• her faith
• the Annunciation
• living with Mystery
• Mary visits her cousin
• the birth of Jesus
• prophecies in the temple
• the Magi, the escape to Egypt
• Jesus, missing child
• "the silent years"
• Mary's imprint on Jesus
• her son leaves home
• Mary sees her son rejected
• a quiet follower of Jesus
• with her son when he dies
• Mary's joy
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Mary in Tradition

• first century: the Scriptures
• apocryphal stories of her early life
• Mary's death and assumption into Heaven
• shrines to Mary in Palestine
  • about Bethlehem
  • St Jerome in Bethlehem
• shrines to Mary in Constantinople
• Mary, the Mother of God
• Europe as Holy Land: 11th-15th centuries
  • Chartres
• medieval devotion to Mary
• the reformation
• devotion to Mary from the Reformation to today
• feasts of Mary: an introduction
  • The Solemnity of Mary,
    the Mother of God - January 1
  • The Immaculate Conception of Mary - December 8
  • The Assumption of Mary - August 15
  • Feasts of the Lord
    in which Mary has a place
  • Other Feasts of Mary
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the presence of Mary in the life of St Paul of the Cross
Marian prayers • links and other resources