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“madonna in the church”
(1440)
(“by jan van eyck”)
(dutch painter)
(1390 – 1441)
(he died @ ‘age 51’)
(a year after he completed this painting)
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(arabic: مريم, translit. maryām)
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*FATHER*
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*MOTHER*
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*HUSBAND*
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*CHILDREN*
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(with her ‘spiritual lover’ (of sorts?))
(protestant tradition states that ‘mary’ and ‘joseph’ went on to have more children)
(so that jesus had a few ‘step siblings’)
(‘god’ vs ‘joseph’)
(‘another perspective…’)
(she drove me ‘satanic’…)
(my heart was pounding for days)
(demanding a raise)
(catholics insist that mary was a ‘perpetual virgin’ to her ‘dying day’)
(does that mean she could still have theoretically had more children with ‘god’?)
(since these testaments obviously don’t consider being impregnated by ‘god’ does not constitute a ‘loss of virginity’?)
(maybe this was some ‘hebrew’ / ‘aramaic’ mstranslation of ‘virginity’)
(is that how ‘something’ came from ‘nothing’?)
(“the ultimate question”)
(WHY?)
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(greek: mαριάμ, translit. mariám; aramaic: ܡܪܝܡ, translit.mariam; hebrew: מִרְיָם, translit. miriam), also known by various ‘titles’, ‘styles’, and ‘honorifics’)
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(‘mary’ was a 1st-century ‘galilean jewish’ woman of ‘nazareth’ and the mother of ‘jesus’, according to the ‘new testament’)
(c. ’18 BC’ – c. ’43 AD’)
(also known as saint mary, the virgin mary, or the “blessed virgin mary”)
(the gospels of ‘matthew’ and ‘luke’ in the ‘new testament’ describe ‘mary’ as a ‘virgin’ (greek: παρθένος, translit. parthénos) and ‘christians’ believe that she conceived her ‘son’ while a ‘virgin’ by the ‘holy spirit’)
(this took place when she was already betrothed to ‘joseph’ and was awaiting the concluding rite of ‘marriage’, the formal ‘home-taking ceremony’)
(she married ‘joseph’ and accompanied him to ‘bethlehem’, where ‘jesus’ was born)
(according to ‘ancient jewish custom’, ‘mary’ could have been ‘betrothed’ at about ’12’, however, there is no direct evidence of mary’s age at ‘betrothal’ or in ‘pregnancy’)
(the term “betrothal” is an awkward translation of kiddushin; according to the ‘jewish law’ those called “betrothed” were actually ‘husband’ and ‘wife’)
(the ‘gospel of luke’ begins its account of mary’s life with the ‘annunciation’, when the angel ‘gabriel’ appeared to her and announced her ‘divine selection’ to be the mother of ‘jesus’)
(according to ‘canonical gospel accounts’, ‘mary’ was present at the ‘crucifixion of jesus’ and is depicted as a member of the early christian community in ‘jerusalem’)
(according to Apocryphal writings, at some time soon after her death, her incorrupt body was assumed directly into Heaven, to be reunited with her soul, and the apostles thereupon found the tomb empty; this is known in Christian teaching as the “Assumption”)
(according to the ‘catholic’ and ‘orthodox’ teaching / “apocryphal writings”, at the end of her ‘earthly life’ her ‘incorrupt’ body was ‘assumed’ directly into ‘heaven’ to be reunited with her ‘soul’; this is known in the ‘west’ as the ‘assumption’)
(the apostles found her tomb empty)
(just like her son)
(‘mary’ had been venerated since ‘early christianity’, and is considered by millions to be the “most meritorious saint of the religion”)
(she is claimed to have miraculously appeared to ‘believers’ many times over the ‘centuries’)
(the ‘eastern’ and ‘oriental orthodox’, ‘roman catholic’, ‘anglican’, and ‘lutheran’ churches believe that ‘mary’, as mother of ‘jesus’, is the ‘mother of god’ (greek: Θεοτόκος, translit. theotokos, lit. ‘god-bearer’ / literally “giver of ‘birth’ to ‘god’)
(there is significant diversity in the ‘marian’ beliefs and devotional practices of ‘major christian traditions’)
(the ‘roman catholic church’ holds distinctive ‘marian’ dogmas; namely her status as the “mother of god”; her “immaculate conception”; her ‘perpetual virginity’; and her “assumption into heaven”)
(many ‘protestants’ minimize mary’s role within ‘christianity’, based on the argued brevity of ‘biblical references’)
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(‘mary’ also has a revered position in ‘islam’, where a whole chapter of the ‘qur’an’ is devoted to her, also describing the ‘birth’ of ‘jesus’)
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*“CHRISTIAN SAINTS” (AD ERA)* ☞ 👉👉👉
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