Marie de Nazareth
To Jesus, through Mary
Icon of the Nativity of Mary.
Mary's birth is not recorded in the Gospels. We only have apocryphal sources on this subject. The Gospel of James, which speaks of it, had a wide circulation in the Christian world of the first centuries.
The Protevangile of James consists of three parts, probably independent and brought together after the 2nd century, and was composed in the 2nd century (around 150)
The author was probably a Judeo-Christian in the diaspora (Alexandria?)
The work is a response, partly scholarly, partly popular, to the calumnies concerning the mystery of the virginal conception of Jesus and the ethical figure of the mother of Jesus, whose dignity and innocence the author emphasises.
This document was widely circulated throughout the Christian world, and the fathers of the Eastern Church paid close attention to it and venerated it.
"The months of Anna were fulfilled: in the ninth month she gave birth. And she said to the midwife, 'What have I borne?' And she said, 'A daughter. And she said, "My soul has been glorified this day"; and she laid the child to rest. And when the days were fulfilled, Anna arose and gave suck to the child, and called her Mary."[1]
-on the birth of Maryin the Marian Encyclopaedia
-on the birth of Mary in artin the Marian Encyclopaedia
-On the Nativity of Mary in the liturgies of the world, in the Marian Encyclopaedia
-on the birth of Mary reported by Blessed A.-C. Emmerichin the Marian Encyclopaedia
A. Gila et l’équipe de MDN.