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Mary was also informed that her "relative Elizabeth" had begun her sixth month of pregnancy, and Mary traveled to "a town in the hill country of Judah", to visit Elizabeth (Luke 1:26–40). When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
The Bible records only that Elizabeth was a descendant of Aaron and a cousin (or relative) of Mary. [2] The name of Sobe first appears in writings of about the 8th century by Hippolytus of Thebes , Andrew of Crete , [ 3 ] and Epiphanius Monachus , [ 4 ] and later in Nicephorus Callistus [ 5 ] and Andronicus . [ 6 ]
Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come only from New Testament apocrypha, of which the Gospel of James (written perhaps around 150 AD) seems to be the earliest that mentions them. The mother of Mary is mentioned but not named in the Quran.
Luke states that Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, was a "relative" (Greek syggenēs, συγγενής) of Mary, and that Elizabeth was descended from Aaron, of the tribe of Levi. [107] Whether she was an aunt, a cousin, or a more distant relation cannot be determined from the word.
There’s “very little” about Mary in the Bible, Cobb says. Aspects of Mary’s character in the movie are based on passages of the New Testament (the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke ...
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"Visitation" with donor portrait, from Altarpiece of the Virgin (St Vaast Altarpiece) by Jacques Daret, c. 1435 (Staatliche Museen, Berlin). In Christianity, the Visitation, also known as the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, refers to the visit of Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus, to Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist, in the Gospel of Luke, Luke 1:39–56.
Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy Express/Stringer/Getty ImagesPrincess Alexandra (born December 25, 1936) was Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin throu The 7 Most Prominent of Queen ...