Mary Woman of Galilee

For centuries, people have prayed to the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. But we know very little about her as a person. Who was Mary, woman of Galilee? We know that she was a first-century Jewish woman who lived in Palestine during the Roman occupation. We know very little about her birth, childhood, and marriage to Joseph. There are sparse and contradictory details about her mysterious teenage pregnancy, her life as a wife, mother of the Saviour, or as a widow helping to form Jesus' New Churc