the Virgin Mary

noun

: the mother of Jesus Christ

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Another legend claims that the Virgin Mary changed the color of rosemary flowers from white to blue after draping her blue cloak over a white-blossomed bush. Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024 Per Catholic teachings, the Virgin Mary appeared four times on the Tepeyac hill before Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, a Nahua man. Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024 Last week, as a statue of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus that was saved during the fire made its way back to the cathedral in a public procession, there was a sense of Notre Dame’s resilience, its strength to pull itself up out of the ashes. Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2024 Like the Virgin Mary statue that emerged from the blaze miraculously unscathed, the organ somehow managed to avoid significant damage in the April 2019 fire. Caroline Baum and Sérène Nourrison, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the Virgin Mary 

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“The Virgin Mary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Virgin%20Mary. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.

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