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The Early Church Fathers are almost unanimous in the assertion that the birth was painless and had no loss of Mary's virginal integrity during the birth. In other words, her Hymen didn't break. St. Augustine said "Jesus passed through the womb of Mary as a ray of sun passes through glass"....This was confirmed by Pope Paul IV and many others before and after. If Jesus emerged from a sealed tomb, and passed through closed doors, surely he could pass through Mary's womb without breaking her hymen and causing her pain.

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Did Mary Have a Bunch of Kids? Mary's perpetual virginity before, during and after Jesus' birth

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1 posted on 12/09/2012 2:05:18 PM PST by Alex Murphy
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Some people are a little too concerned about the hymen of the mother of our Lord.

What if it broke while riding a donkey? Would she no longer be as much of a virgin? It is ridiculous and a little TMI.

Good thing there wasn’t much else for the early church fathers to be doing of worth so that they could spend so much time and effort and ink thinking and writing about Mary’s hymen./s


157 posted on 12/12/2012 8:21:14 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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