The Bible never gives Mary’s age. On the usual estimates she was in her early to mid teens when Jesus was born, and because Jesus died in his thirties, she was somewhere between about 46 and 53 when she stood by the cross. Each figure is an estimate, built from Jewish custom, the Gospels’ dates and early Christian tradition. The numbers matter less than the span they mark. A girl in Nazareth, very young, heard the angel. A woman in…

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