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The Virgin Mary is the Theotokos, the mother of Jesus Christ, the Son and Word of God. She conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. She was cared for by her betrothed husband, Joseph, who took the child and his mother into his home as his own. One very strong tradition in the Orthodox Church holds that the birth of Jesus was ... miraculous and left Mary's virginity intact as a sign; it is also the tradition of the Church that Joseph and Mary did not have relations after the birth of Jesus. She is also called Panagia, the "All-Holy," indicating her closeness to God in her obedience.
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The Virgin Mary is a woman who, according to various eye-witness accounts, gave birth to Jesus. She never had sex with her husband and lied to him when she got pregnant and declared that a ghost had impregnated her. Thus came the story that she was virgin, a story that no one originally believed except her husband, the cuckold Joseph.
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Answer: The Catholic Church has no official teaching on whether or not the Virgin Mary had a virgin conception and virgin birth. This booklet contains speculative theology, that is, theology on questions not yet decided by the Church.
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The Virgin Mary statues, which had bags of heroin hidden inside them, were part of Mr. Eko's plan to smuggle drugs out of Nigeria. The statues were being loaded onto a Beechcraft 18 airplane by Eko, Goldie, and Olu when Yemi showed up to warn his brother not to get on the plane. Just at this moment, military soldiers began shooting at the drug smugglers, gunning down Olu and Yemi, who was shielding Eko from the bullets. Goldie helped Yemi onto the plane, but then shoved Eko out and took off without him. The airplane unknowingly crashed on the Island, landing on top of a huge question mark that marked the entrance to the Pearl.
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Images of the Virgin Mary often appear on windows, fence posts, and walls and on food. People react in a variety of ways to the images. Some throw rocks. Some simply deface the images with spray paint. Some line up for hours to see the images. Others sell the Virgin food item on eBay (see: The Sandwich, below).
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The principal understanding of the Virgin Mary as Ever-Virgin in Scripture is expressed in terms of her being a new Ark of the Covenant, a created thing which somehow contained the uncontainable God. The reason that St. Joseph the Betrothed (as tradition names him) did not enter into marital relations with her is that he understood her as one would understand the Ark, that she had been set aside for use by God, and that her womb had in some sense been made into a temple. The language used for the Virgin in the New Testament parallels that used for the Ark in the Old:
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