The Story Of Mary

A simple retelling of the life of Mary, from her encounter with the angel Gabriel to the birth of baby Jesus.

She's the most famous woman in history, yet almost nothing is known about her. Although she's portrayed as the gentlest and most tragic of all women, her name has been used as an excuse for internecine hatred and wars between peoples. But who was Mary, mother of Jesus Christ? What type of family did she have? What was the community like in which she grew from child to teenager forced to marry a man three times her age? And why have virtually all the details of her early life been obscured and censored by the writers of the Bible? In The Book of Mary, novelist Alan Gold looks at first century Israel under the iron heels of Roman occupation and uncovers what life was like for a young woman in a distant outpost of the most aggressive and merciless Empire in history. Following Mary's story from teenager to a young woman married to a widower, to mother, and then to become a devotee of the new religion her Son had created. This tragic yet virtually unknown woman is forced to witness the excruciating pain of her son's crucifixion.

An account of the life of the Virgin Mary, from her birth through her early years and education at the Temple to the Annunciation.

Traces the life of the Virgin Mary from her childhood to her assumption.

de book of Mary is an epic poem in Jamaican Creole based on the Biblical story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus. It covers Mary's life from her early years, through the arrival of the Archangel Gabriel and the birth of Yeshua, to her death.

Acclaimed potter Mary Fox, known for creating stunning gravity-defying decorative vessels as well as contemporary functional ware, tells the story of her life as an artist.

Beautiful and devout, Mary is a mere teenager when she is chosen to bear the long awaited messiah, Jesus of Nazareth. Now the most famous mother in history is catapulted into a world of power and violence and must devote her life to protecting her son. When Jesus is arrested during the Passover Festival, Mary embarks on a dangerous and frantic race to save him. But she is powerless and can only stand by and watch his brutal crucifixion. After Jesus' death, Mary shares her painful struggle to survive her own grief and find meaning in her son's death.

In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel -- her keepers, who provide her with food and shelter and visit her regularly. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was "worth it;" nor that the "group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye," were holy disciples. Mary judges herself ruthlessly (she did not stay at the foot of the Cross until her son died -- she fled, to save herself), and is equally harsh on her judgement of others. This woman who we know from centuries of paintings and scripture as the docile, loving, silent, long-suffering, obedient, worshipful mother of Christ becomes a tragic heroine with the relentless eloquence of Electra or Medea or Antigone. Tóibín's tour de force of imagination and language is a portrait so vivid and convincing that our image of Mary will be forever transformed.