[Magdalen] Images and words about Mary

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 1/30/16 3:29 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> Is there anything that speaks to Joe's age?  I'm not aware that there is.
>
> One can say he has left the building by the time JC is getting on the road,
> but as we all know, you can't make a strong argument from silence, unless
> it supports your point of view.   Mary hardly ever shows up either. Just
> sayin'

Not in the Bible, but remember that there were a lot of documents 
floating around in the first few centuries that didn't make the cut, 
because they weren't Apostolic.  One of them, (which reads as quite 
incredible to me) details the Assumption.  Others are about Mary's 
childhood and birth, and various with different details about Jesus' 
childhood.  They're interesting to read, and the people who wrote them 
might have known _something_, even if they weren't Inspired as a whole.
Some of them are just being dug up now, others were preserved by the 
Church since those very early times.  Go to
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/
and scroll all the way down to "Apocrypha" and "Miscellaneous"


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