Was Mary a Widow When Jesus Died? When Jesus was 12 years old, He and his parents went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. After the festival was over, Jesus’ parents joined a large caravan of friends and family members to begin their three-day journey back to Nazareth. After one ...
What happened to Mary Magdalene after Jesus died? Mary Magdalene's life after the Gospel accounts. According to Eastern tradition, sheaccompanied St.John the Apostle to Ephesus, where she died and was buried. French tradition spuriously claims that she evangelized Provence (southeastern France) and...
Gertrud Schiller reproduced more than 100 images of Mary reclining in bed surrounded by the apostles who grieve, pray, and in late medieval art perform the rites for the dying. In these images, Jesus either stands at the bedside or hovers...
Jesus had died and was laid in the Tomb, Peter had denied Him and fled, the Apostles and disciples were scattered and confused. The “visible” authority and structure of the newly-born Church was to all appearances shaken, destroyed, gone. What remained? A small group gathered ...
“Thy own soul a sword shall pierce” (Lk 2:35). This prophecy was fulfilled on Calvary. “Yes, O Blessed Mother,” says St. Bernard, “a sword has truly pierced your soul. It could penetrate Your Son’s flesh only by passing through your soul. And after Jesus had died, the cruel...
Mother Mary: Yes my dear one, I your Heavenly Mother Mary, will now and will always bow down and adore my Holy Divine beloved Son, Jesus of Nazareth, who was born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth. Who was taken and tortured then crucified, died and was buried. He descended to the dea...
She died last year due to kidney failure but if she were alive today, she would probably be by my side now)," Casano reminisced her mother, who was named after the Blessed Mary. Devotees mark 400th year of Our Lay of Mount Carmel's arrival in the Philippines Pregnant women choose th...
So, the earliest accounts claimed Jerusalem, but that was later changed to Ephesus by some. If Mary died 3-15 years after Jesus, then she likely did not die in the area near Ephesus. Another article inThe Catholic Encyclopediamentions: ...
Will you bow down and adore Jesus Christ, your only begotten Son, who was born in Bethlehem, and raised in Nazareth. As a man, was tortured, crucified and died on the Cross for all mankind’s sins. Who arose from the dead and ascended into Heaven where Jesus now sits at His Father’...
Jesus' nativity; her purification at the Temple; her station at the Cross, where Jesus instructed that she and his disciple John should consider themselves related as mother and son; her visit to Christ's tomb after his resurrection; and her attendance in the room with the Twelve Apostles at...