What happened to the mother of Jesus?

Her death is not recorded in the scriptures, but Orthodox tradition, tolerated also by Catholics, has her first dying a natural death, known as the Dormition of Mary, and then, soon after, her body itself also being assumed (taken bodily) into Heaven.
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What happened to Jesus mother after the crucifixion?

The Eastern Orthodox Greek Church held to the dormition of Mary. According to this, Mary had a natural death, and her soul was then received by Christ. Her body arose on the third day after her death. She was then taken up bodily into heaven.
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What happened to Joseph and Mary after Jesus died?

Joseph then fled to Egypt with Mary and Jesus, and the angel appeared again, telling Joseph that Herod had died and instructing him to return to the Holy Land. Avoiding Bethlehem and possible actions by Herod's successor, Joseph, Mary and Jesus settled in Nazareth, in Galilee.
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Who is the real mother of Jesus?

Mary, also called St. Mary or the Virgin Mary, (flourished beginning of the Christian era), the mother of Jesus, venerated in the Christian church since the apostolic age and a favourite subject in Western art, music, and literature.
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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Mary, the Mother of Jesus



How old was Mary when Jesus was born?

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However, now we believe that Mary and Joseph were both in their teens when Jesus was born, around sixteen and eighteen respectively. This was the norm for Jewish newlyweds at that time.
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How many children did Mary have?

They may have been: (1) the sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph (the most natural inference); (2) sons of the Mary named in Mark 15:40 as "mother of James and Joses", whom Jerome identified with the wife of Clopas and sister of Mary the mother of Jesus; or (3) sons of Joseph by a former marriage.
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Why did God choose Mary?

Virgin Mary Was never a sinner. That is why she was chosen to be the mother of The Almighty, Jesus Christ. The Blessed Virgin Mary was born without original sin by God's divine grace. Next to Jesus, only she is free from all sin.
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How long did Mary live after Jesus died?

According to ancient Jewish custom, Mary could have been betrothed at about 12. Hyppolitus of Thebes says that Mary lived for 11 years after the death of her son Jesus, dying in 41 AD.
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How old was Joseph when Jesus died?

By contrast, the apocryphal History of Joseph the Carpenter, from the 5th or 6th century, has a long account of Joseph's peaceful death, at the age of 111, in the presence of Jesus (aged about 19), Mary and angels.
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How old was Mary when she married Joseph?

In fact, according to Jewish law and customs of the day, Mary and Joseph probably would have both been young when they married. “Girls were usually engaged sometime between the ages of 12 and 15, and would be married sometime thereafter, at 15 or 16, and boys would have been 19 or 20,” Fredriksen says.
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What was Jesus's wife's name?

Mary Magdalene as Jesus's wife

One of these texts, known as the Gospel of Philip, referred to Mary Magdalene as Jesus's companion and claimed that Jesus loved her more than the other disciples.
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When did Mary go to heaven?

Eastern Christians believe that Mary died a natural death, that her soul was received by Christ upon death, that her body was resurrected on the third day after her death and that she was taken up into heaven bodily in anticipation of the general resurrection.
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What did Jesus say to Mary when he was carrying the cross?

Jesus, therefore, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing by, said to his mother: iWoman, behold thy son.; Then, he said to the disciple iBehold thy mother.; And from that hour the disciple took her to his own (home). This very well-known text is one of the most important Marian passages in Scripture.
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What is Jesus real name?

Jesus' name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua.
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What Colour was Mary's eyes?

Part of this claim comes from the inheritance of eye color - Lady Mary has brown eyes and her parents have blue.
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What color are the Blessed Virgin Mary's eyes?

During the 1981 apparition in Medjugorje, six children said they saw a female figure with an oval face, black hair, and blue eyes, and that it was the Virgin Mary.
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How many brothers did Jesus have?

Mark 6:3 tells us that Jesus had four younger brothers and at least two sisters, the children of Mary and Joseph. The sisters' names have not been preserved, but the brothers were called James (in the Hebrew, Jacob), Joses (in the Hebrew, Joseph, after his father), Simon, and Judas or Juda (also known as Jude).
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What happened to Mary and Joseph?

Mary and Joseph were tested by a miracle. An angel saved them. Although the couple was engaged to be married, the conception of Jesus nearly drove them apart—until the divine intervened.
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Was Joseph and Mary married?

The betrothal legend in the Golden Legend

After the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and caused Joseph's rod to blossom, he and Mary were wed according to Jewish custom.
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How old is Jesus now?

The current year of the birth of Jesus is 2021 AD. It means that on this Christmas, Jesus will be two thousand and twenty-one years old.
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When was the last time the Virgin Mary appeared?

Her last claim of a public apparition — Oct. 7, 1950 — drew 30,000 people. Among them was Ron Schelfhout, who was 14 years old at the time.
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