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  • The virgin birth of Jesus is a religious tenet of Christianity and Islam, which hold that Mary miraculously conceived Jesus while remaining a ...
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  • prayer asking for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus ... Based on the greeting of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary in the ...
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  • of the Buddha attribute his birth to a virgin birth, probably from a specific ... Carrha (278 C.E.) mentions the Buddha's virgin-birth. ...
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  • 25. Since it occurs 9 months before the birth (or Nativity) of Jesus on ... to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to ...
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  • a belief arose that Mary was born to Anne by virgin birth. ... , which is frequently confused with the Virgin Birth or Incarnation of Christ. ...
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  • small boy he was healed by an icon of the Virgin Mary and was given the ability ... they found in his hut was an icon of the Virgin Mary. The incident left Seraphim ...
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  • they rejected the term Theotokos (Giver of birth to God/Mother of God) as ... title Mother of God (Theotokos) for the Virgin Mary and would only call ...
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  • The virgin birth of Jesus is a religious tenet of Christianity and Islam, which hold that Mary miraculously conceived Jesus while remaining a ...
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  • sciencenews Study confirms virgin birth of zoo shark pup.] The ... science/t/female-sharks-capable-virgin-birth/#.XD9uZVxKiUk Female sharks ...
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  • a great pagan king. Desiring to remain a virgin, she obtained a delay. At ... but the earlier third century story of virgin martyrs on which it is based ...
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  • can accordingly be described as being a virgin. In broader usage of these ... The terms virgin and virginity were introduced into English in the ...
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  • since Advent represents the coming or birth of Christ, the period prior ... dressed to represent Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary. A halfpenny was expected ...
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  • The Qur'an also affirms the virgin birth of Jesus: ... === Virgin Birth of Jesus === The Apostles' Creed and Nicene Creed ...
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  • to the Octagon is the Shrine for the Virgin Mary or Marian Shrine (1238 ... The Shrine of the Virgin Mary was completed in 1238 and contains the ...
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  • of Early Renaissance painting, and The Birth of Venus and Primavera rank ... The masterworks Primavera (c. 1478) and The Birth of Venus (c. 1485 ...
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  • of dryness and sterility. Anat, the ever-virgin goddess of dew and war, joins ... The story of the Virgin Mary conceiving through the power of the Holy ...
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  • eastern magi at Bethlehem after Jesus' birth, he then fled to Egypt to ... relations with her until after she gave birth. In accordance with the angel ...
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  • a vision of his deceased mother with the Virgin Mary. In his twenties he ... deceased mother was in the company of the Virgin Mary. As a result, his formerly ...
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  • === Birth of Antiquities Act === [[Image:Keet Seel closeup.jpg|thumb ... are Governors Island National Monument, Virgin Islands Coral Reef National ...
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  • cause of the tumult that retarded the birth of democracy in Florence ... Christian untruth includes trinity, the virgin birth, the godly nature of Jesus ...
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  • title of Theotokos (God-bearer) for the Virgin Mary. Cyril wrote extensively ... of the term Theotokus—referring to the Virgin Mary as "God-bearer ...
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  • about 20 years before Bridget's birth, was a relative of the family ... Shortly before her death, she described a vision of the birth of Jesus ...
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  • conduct before marriage. A woman who is a virgin is also sometimes referred ... and for a period of time after the birth of a child. The Qur'an ...
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  • | date of birth =1515|9|22|df=y | place of birth =Düsseldorf, Cleves ... facts of life. "I surely cannot be [a virgin], because every night when ...
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  • his abode. Her many titles include "Virgin ‘Anat," "Progenitress ... Although she is consistently referred to as "virgin," Anat ...
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  • but as the time for Elizabeth to give birth neared, Mary returned to Nazareth. ===The birth of John=== After this, Elizabeth gave birth to a son, ...
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  • was fulfilled through Jesus' virgin birth (Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:23). ... Immanuel as being fulfilled in the Virgin Birth of Jesus. "The virgin ...
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  • Marto, in witnessing the appearance of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal ... Carolina de Jesus Rosa, Maria Rosa (died at birth), and Lucia de Jesus. Although ...
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  • small town near Reggio Emilia. His date of birth is uncertain (around 1489 ... the painting, the ascending figure of the Virgin floating away on a gleaming ...
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  • (Mother of God) in relation to the Virgin Mary. Thinking to defend ... that Mary, the mother of Jesus gave birth to Christ, not God himself ...
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  • rejected the term Theotokos (“Giver of birth to God/Mother of God”) ... “Mother of God” (Theotokos) for the Virgin Mary, suggesting that she ...
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  • His exact place of birth is not known, but documents of the time assign ... combines a supplication to the Blessed Virgin Mary with a drinking song ...
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  • of Saint Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla, whose devotion ... Thecla, a virgin of noble birth who was betrothed to a man named Thamyris ...
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  • Mother of God, beginning to be used of the Virgin Mary. He distinguished between ... “Mother of God” (Theotokos) for the Virgin Mary and would only call ...
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  • occurred just a few months after she gave birth to a boy called Leonardo ... only six paintings. These include Virgin of the Rocks in 1494 and ...
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  • as a physician, he returned to his place of birth in the British Virgin Islands ... was born on Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands, West Indies, in ...
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  • as Athena Parthenos ("Athena the virgin"), a name that was enshrined ... * Parthénos (= virgin), the aspect of her character that was memorialized ...
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  • like Jesus, inevitably wove myths about his birth and death, and his miracles. ... the modern, scientific criticism of the virgin birth of Jesus. Strauss’s ...
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  • in 1672, later to be renamed the British Virgin Islands. ... by the Netherlands in 1839, giving birth to Belgium. As part of the ...
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  • of the church view it as prefiguring the virgin birth of Jesus; Eastern Orthodox theology refers to Mary, the mother of Jesus as the God bearer ...
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  • child Immanuel as being fulfilled in the Virgin Birth of Jesus. "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call ...
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  • | date of birth = 1283 | place of birth = Norway | date of death = 1290 ... known as the Maid of Norway, literally The Virgin of Norway, sometimes known ...
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  • deal of controversy with his 1926 painting, The Virgin Chastises the infant Jesus before Three Witnesses: André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the Painter ...
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  • was 25, it is thought that Duns Scotus’ birth must have been no later than ... was that it was appropriate that Mary be a virgin when she conceived Christ ...
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  • # The pre-existence, deity, and virgin birth of Jesus. # The satisfaction of God's justice by the crucifixion of Christ (substitutionary ...
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  • === Birth === the ailing mistress was barred from giving birth on terra firma (or, in another ...
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  • under Caligula or Claudius. His place of birth was Augusta Bilbilis in Hispania ... :"Rumor says, Chiona, that you are a virgin and that nothing ...
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  • Medals may commemorate people, such as Christ or the Virgin Mary, ... of churches and sanctuaries of the Blessed Virgin, he enumerates over 700 such ...
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  • She reported hearing the voice of the Virgin Mary as a child, which she considered to be a normal occurrence. She made her first communion at ...
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  • the male caring for the eggs and giving birth. Their courtship and reproductive ... === Birth === The male seahorse can give birth to as few as 1 and as ...
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  • 039;s Well--This shrine, commemorating the Virgin Mary, is located at an ancient ... the Archangel Gabriel announced the future birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary ...
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  • a regnant Queen following Christina's birth; people in Sweden looked ... In the autumn of 1623, Maria Eleonora gave birth to a daughter, but ...
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  • to mainstream Muslims since its birth. Muslims have not accepted ... except that the question of Jesus' virgin birth is not an essential requirement ...
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  • "Parthenon" means "of the virgin" or "of the virgins ... The East pediment narrates the birth of Athena from the head of her ...
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  • Saint Croix, in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands), to Portuguese Sephardic Jewish parents, Phillip Benjamin and Rebecca de Mendes. He ...
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  • and women. Actually, she may have died a virgin. In 1656, she was involved ... Christina was born in Stockholm. Her birth occurred during a rare ...
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  • continued and Naomi is blessed by Obed’s birth. The genealogy that concludes ... because Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, whose husband Joseph ...
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  • Yet, despite their prominence in the birth narrative of Jesus, the fate ... As one can only be Zoroastrian by birth, the number of Parsis and ...
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  • child out of 25. (Her twin sister died at birth). Her parents were Giacomo ... quot; God told her, "conceive and give birth! Give birth to a race of ...
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  • to any play until years later, when The Virgin Martyr (registered with the ... rests upon three of his plays, The Virgin Martyr (licensed 1620), The ...
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  • John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant ...
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  • These two sources disagree on the year of her birth: according to ... and two small paintings of the Virgin and Child (dates unknown, Cleveland ...
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  • Osiris gained more authority, tells of the birth of Anubis. The tale describes ... Yet another set of myths detail the adventures of Isis after the birth ...
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  • remarkable for several reasons. First, his birth was anything but a noble ... The virgin girl, with unquestioning faith, agrees to comply with his ...
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  • as a physician. The exact date of his birth is uncertain, but he was ... *The Virgin Unmasked (1709, 1724, 1731, 1742), a work in which the ...
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  • . In the New Testament he appears to the Virgin Mary in the Annunciation ... visits Mary to reveal that she will give birth to Jesus. According to later ...
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  • many children. With Ares, Aphrodite gave birth to Anteros and Eros, the ... lover but that she also had a part in his birth. She urged Myrrha to commit ...
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  • onset of lactation of ewes, soon to give birth to the spring lambs.John ... "the feast of the Purification of the Virgin." ...
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  • symbols, a carpet page, a miniature of the Virgin and Child, a miniature of ... left|Folio 7v contains an image of the Virgin and Child. This is the oldest ...
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  • Rock 'n' Roll Revolutionaries. London: Virgin Books, 2004. * Muir, Eddie, and Tony Scott. Somethin' Else: A Tribute to Eddie Cochran ...
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  • [[Image:Virgin and child with cat.jpg|thumb|Rembrandt, The Virgin ... fifteenth century—little earlier than the birth of etching as a printmaking ...
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  • he was baptized in Reus a day after his birth. The artist's parents ... incarnate, given to the world by the Virgin Mary." Later, these ...
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  • of debate whether his Logos was innate from birth (the Orthodox view), or acquired ... Plain round halos are typically used to signify saints, the Virgin ...
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  • throughout the world celebrates the birth of Christ, which is believed ... and commemorates the role of the Virgin Mary in the Nativity of Jesus ...
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  • . Hera was jealous of Zeus' giving birth to Athena without recourse ... When Alcmene was pregnant with Heracles, Hera tried to prevent the ...
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  • of love, the fertile God gives birth to the Son, the Word. Clearly ... principle was the being which never gives birth or is born. The second was ...
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  • not state so explicitly, he seems to be a virgin. There is no indication, ... novel, as it is the date of Florence’s birth, marriage, suicide, and other ...
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  • "Baal Berith." Years before the birth of the future kings Saul ... to build a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Procop., "De edif ...
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  • Of their eight children, one died at birth and one daughter died at age nine. The surviving children all painted, and Lucien, the oldest son ...
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  • began living together. However with the birth of her daughter, Tamar Theresa ... about women’s rights, free love, and birth control in the 1910s, she ...
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  • saints and relics, and the veneration of the Virgin Mary, were also strongly reaffirmed as spiritually vital. However, while the basic structure ...
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  • "Γεννάω" (gennao) means "to give birth" ... made human, was born perfectly of the holy virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit. ...
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  • The Qur'an narrates the virgin birth of Jesus numerous times. ... Zechariah however, who believed in the virgin birth, supported her. The elders ...
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  • award in Japan). In 1979 his novel “The Birth Of Christ” won the Yomiuri ... used “Fumie,” pictures of the Virgin Mary and Christ, to test ...
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  • statues, large and small, often of the Virgin and Child. ... statues, particularly of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which most commonly ...
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  • fundamental doctrines such as The Virgin Birth and bodily Resurrection ... infallibility of scripture, Jesus' Virgin Birth (in which, based on Qur’an ...
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  • was taken to Scotland by a priest. A London birth certainly seems supported ... [[Image:Wright-Virgin and Child.jpg|thumb|left|"The Virgin and ...
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  • Christmas or Christmas Day commemorates and celebrates the birth of ... According to the Bible, Jesus' birth was celebrated by many well ...
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  • with Saint Anne, and the Death of the Virgin. The history of these last ... followers, Carlo Saraceni), showed the Virgin not dead, as Caravaggio had ...
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  • chapel was consecrated and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. ... to Moses, between Moses and Christ's birth, and the Christian era thereafter ...
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  • estrogen can induce maternal behavior in a virgin ewe. These effects are all ... * By contrast, a male rat castrated just after birth will be feminized ...
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  • auxin results in parthenocarpy ("virgin-fruit" growth). ... been implicated in leukemia, miscarriages, birth defects, liver damage, and ...
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  • night and day without ceasing; for my virgin daughter—my people—has ... citizens of Judah liberate their slaves of Hebrew birth (43). ...
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  • border in Catalonia, Spain. Concerning his birth, Dalí "was born at ... chastity (as Dalí linked the rhinoceros to the Virgin Mary). ...
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  • | Label = Capitol, EMI, Parlophone, Virgin | Associated_acts = Ike Turner, Ike and Tina Turner, Bryan Adams, David Bowie }} Tina Turner (born ...
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  • such as the divinity of Jesus, the Virgin Birth, and the early stages ... accepted the doctrines of the Virgin Birth and divinity of Jesus. ...
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  • well as be Protestant and, preferably, a virgin. Diana seemed to meet all ... Mother. Although she would not be Queen by birth, but instead through marriage ...
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  • only a few decades before Raleigh's birth. Hence, Raleigh's command ... * The 1955 film The Virgin Queen, starring Bette Davis, Richard Todd ...
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  • but the story is told that before his birth, his mother dreamed that ... Saint Dominic. One legend holds that the Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Dominic ...
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  • her death. Sometimes referred to as The Virgin Queen (since she never married ... States, was named after her, as the "Virgin Queen." ...
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  • | date of birth = June 20, 1566 | place of birth = Gripsholm Castle, Sweden | date of death = 1632 ...
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