Blessed Virgin Mary

Mother of Christ

The Blessed Virgin Mary is Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, in Christian tradition—particularly Catholic, Orthodox, and some Anglican contexts.

The title emphasizes her purity and special status: a prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, a statue of the Blessed Virgin.

Often shortened to the Blessed Virgin or the Virgin Mary.

Related

immaculate · intercession · Lourdes · Mother of God · Our Lady · Fatima · Magnificat · devotion · Hail Mary · Queen of Heaven · Immaculate Conception · Compassion · Black Madonna · Guadalupe · piety · Ave Maria · archetype · Our Lady of Sorrows

Opposites
moral/spiritual purity

Blessed Virgin MaryWhore of Babylon

Biblical embodiment of depravity

Eve · Lilith · scarlet woman · Satan · harlot

role in salvation narrative

Blessed Virgin MaryEve

Genesis matriarch

Whore of Babylon · Lilith · Pandora · Satan · Judas Iscariot

sexual/virginal status

Blessed Virgin MaryWhore of Babylon

Biblical embodiment of depravity

prostitute · harlot · Aphrodite · Venus · courtesan

Family

blessed, bless, blesses, blessing, blessings, virgin, virgins, virginal, virginity

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