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Mary Rowlandson, née White, later Mary Talcott (c. 1637 – January 5, 1711), was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans [1] [2] in 1676 during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed.
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (also known as The Sovereignty and Goodness of God) is a 1682 memoir written by Mary (White) Rowlandson, a married English colonist and mother who was captured in 1675 in an attack by Native Americans during King Philip's War. She was held by them for ransom for 11 weeks and 5 ...
The Jesus bloodline refers to the proposition that a lineal sequence of the historical Jesus has persisted, possibly to the present time. Although absent from the Gospels or historical records, the concept of Jesus having descendants has gained a presence in the public imagination, as seen with Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 movie adaptation of the same name ...
On May 2, after eleven weeks in captivity, Rowlandson was released to Hoar for a £20 ransom at the glacial stone outcropping known today as Redemption Rock. Rowlandson would go on to write a famous narrative of her experience as a captive, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary ...
Mary [b] was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, [7] 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.
"Rappin' for Jesus" is a 2013 viral music video. [1] It was purportedly written for a Christian youth outreach program in Dubuque, Iowa , by Pastor Jim Colerick and his wife Mary Sue, but is generally thought to be a hoax or parody .
Future LDS Church president, David O. McKay, travelled to China with Hugh Cannon in 1921, symbolically consecrating China to missionary efforts without beginning an actual missionary campaign. [ 2 ] : 43–44 [ 4 ] : 42 Cannon wrote that in the aftermath of China's ongoing famine, unrest, and recent humiliations on the part of foreign powers ...
The Day Christ Died is a 1980 American television film directed by James Cellan Jones, and produced by 20th Century Fox and CBS-TV. A dramatization of the last 24 hours of Jesus Christ 's life, it is based on Jim Bishop 's 1957 book of the same name. [ 2 ]