Mary, mother of Jesus

The woman God chose to be the mother of His Son. When the angel Gabriel told her she would give birth to God’s Son, she asked, “How can this be?” The angel explained that God would work a miracle through her and that the child to be born would not be Joseph’s son, but the Son of God. She responded with a beautiful hymn of praise. Shortly after that she married Joseph, a carpenter to whom she was engaged. Mary remembered all the wonderful events surrounding Jesus’s birth and probably shared them later with the apostles and the gospel writers.

When Jesus was twelve years old, Mary and Joseph were amazed that Jesus taught the teachers in the temple. Years later, at a wedding in the village of Cana, she asked Jesus to perform His first miracle. When Jesus was dying on the cross, He asked His Mary seems to have been active in the early church.