𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙍𝙊𝙒𝙉𝙎𝙑𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙀 𝙊𝘽𝙎𝙀𝙍𝙑𝙀𝙍 𝙋𝙐𝘽𝙇𝙄𝙎𝙃𝙀𝙎 𝘼 𝘾𝙃𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙈𝘼𝙎 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙍𝙔

 

There's some confusion about the birthplace of the mother of Jesus, a woman referred to by Brownsville's Catholics as the Virgin Mary.

Most historians claim she was born in Sepphoris, a town in Galilee, while others say she hails from Nazareth, where her son was born, and a few money changers insist she's from near the Sheep's Gate in Jerusalem of Judaea.

Author/Lecturer David Bercot

My boyhood friend, Harlingen's David Bercot, one of the world's leading experts on primitive Christianity, would certainly have an informed opinion, while Pastor Brad Burke or Bishop Daniel Flores would rightfully view such a technical question as above their pay grade.

One thing I do know for a certainty is that, once impregnated, Mary was no longer a virgin.  

Actually, Mary and her husband Joseph never made that claim in writing anyway, at least not in the Good Book or any other reference, whether scrolled on vellum or chiseled on stone tablet.

It was one or more of the so-called gospel writers, one of them penning his account a century AFTER Jesus birth, who claimed it was an angel who initially approached Joseph to tell him how the whole thing would go down.

If you find Joseph or the account written about him credible, his reported contention of abstaining from marital relations with Mary before she became with child, then it was likely God himself who did the deed with Mary.

That's not too far-fetched as many extraordinary men in history were reportedly sons of gods, with Jupiter, for example, said to have had sex with hundreds of human females.

Actually, one religious tradition seems to morph into another.

Diana of Ephesus morphs into the Virgin Mary.

The ancient religion of Rome morphs into Catholicism.

Saturnalia Wreath

Saturnalia, the hedonistic ceremony celebrated December 25 with wreathes and gift-giving, becomes Christmas, a celebration of the birth of Jesus.(We'd say birth of Christ, but the baby wasn't born a Christ, but, according to the tradition, became one at the age of 30.)