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To: cloudmountain

From what I’ve learned Mary was consecrated to the Temple at her birth, that is, perpetual virginity. I believe that is what the consecration meant for baby girls.

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Source for this? Judaism never had a practice for this for women that I have ever come across so I am curious.

And Joseph is mentioned when Jesus was 12 so after his birth.


81 posted on 03/17/2012 4:27:56 PM PDT by reaganaut ("I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: reaganaut

I believe that the Presentation of Mary at the temple took place when she was three years old.


180 posted on 03/17/2012 9:52:19 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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