The narrative continues in Nazareth of Galilee, where Mary, a young Jewish girl set aside by God from the moment of her Immaculate Conception, met with great astonishment the angel Gabriel: “Hail, Mary, full of grace! The Lord is with you.” She was told that she would bear the Son of God, a son to be named Emmanuel, “God is with us,” who was to be the long-awaited Messiah-King, the Savior of Israel. “Let it be done unto me,” she responded, and in the quiet of her bed-chamber, the whole world started over again. The human race was to receive a new mother, a new Eve.

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