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Mary [b] was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, [9] the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many of them mentioned in the Litany of Loreto.
Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christianity, is known by many different titles (Blessed Mother, Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Holy Virgin, Madonna), epithets (Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Cause of Our Joy), invocations (Panagia, Mother of Mercy, God-bearer Theotokos), and several names associated with places (Our Lady of Loreto, Our Lady of Fátima).
According to apocrypha, as well as Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels .
Our Lady of Fátima (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora de Fátima, pronounced [ˈnɔsɐ sɨˈɲɔɾɐ ðɨ ˈfatimɐ]; formally known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fátima) is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
And so you say, O heretic, whoever you may be, who deny that God was born of the Virgin, that Mary the Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ ought not to be called Theotokos, i.e., Mother of God, but Christotocos, i.e., only the Mother of Christ, not of God. For no one, you say, brings forth what is anterior in time.
Mary of the Flight into Egypt; Mary, Untier of Knots; Mary, Help of Christians; Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace; Mater ter admirabilis; Mediatrix; Mediatrix of all graces; Our Lady of Medjugorje; Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Mother of Divine Grace; Mother of the Church
Mary (mother of Jesus), Mary of Nazareth, the mother of Jesus; Saint Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (1817–1898), founder of the congregation of the Religious of the Assumption; Venerable Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (1602 –1665), Franciscan abbess and spiritual writer; Blessed María López de Rivas Martínez (1560 – 1640), known as Mary of Jesus ...
Mary, mother of Jesus, also called the Blessed Virgin Mary; Mary Magdalene, devoted follower of Jesus; Mary of Bethany, follower of Jesus, considered by Western medieval tradition to be the same person as Mary Magdalene; Mary, mother of James; Mary of Clopas, follower of Jesus; Mary, mother of John Mark; Mary of Egypt, patron saint of penitents