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The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary

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The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary.

The blessed and

glorious

ever

-

virgin

Mary

,

sprung

from

the

royal

stock

and

family

of

David

,

born

in

the

city

of

Nazareth

,

was

brought

up

at

Jerusalem

in

the

temple

of

the

Lord

.

Her

father

was

named

Joachim

,

and

her

mother

Anna

.

Her

father’s

house

was

from

Galilee

and

the

city

of

Nazareth

,

but

her

mother’s

family

from

Bethlehem

.

Their

life

was

guileless

and

right

before

the

Lord

,

and

irreproachable

and

pious

before

men

.

For

they

divided

all

their

substance

into

three

parts

.

One

part

they

spent

upon

the

temple

and

the

temple

servants

;

another

they

distributed

to

strangers

and

the

poor

;

the

third

they

reserved

,

for

themselves

and

the

necessities

of

their

family

.

Thus

,

dear

to

God

,

kind

to

men

,

for

about

twenty

years

they

lived

in

their

own

house

,

a

chaste

married

life

,

without

having

any

children

.

Nevertheless

they

vowed

that

,

should

the

Lord

happen

to

give

them

offspring

,

they

would

deliver

it

to

the

service

of

the

Lord

;

on

which

account

also

they

used

to

visit

the

temple

of

the

Lord

at

each

of

the

feasts

during

the

year

.