The Virgin Birth of the Virgin Mary 

    Again, these words of the Virgin Mary about the anniversary of the Crucifixion do not directly reveal the 

date of the Crucifixion. However, she does, by these same words, reveal the length of the life of her Divine Son 

Jesus. Mary was speaking in terms of the current calendar, which was set up so that 

A.D.

 1 would be the year 

that Christ completed one year of life from His Incarnation, and 

A.D.

 33 would be the year that Christ 

completed 33 years of life from His Incarnation. Therefore, speaking in terms of that calendar system, if Christ 

died in 

A.D.

 33, then He would have completed just over 33 years of life from His Holy Conception to His 

Crucifixion. The visions given to Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich also indicate that Jesus was just over 33 

years old, counting from the Incarnation, when He was crucified. 

The Time of Mary's Birth 

    According to Blessed Anne Catherine, the Virgin Mary was born about midnight.  Anna did not go to bed, 

but prayed, and at midnight woke the other women to pray with her. 

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 Saint Ann and the other women 

prayed, and during their prayers, the Virgin Mary was born by a miracle of God. Blessed Anne Catherine 

clearly describes the birth of the Virgin Mary as both miraculous and virginal, and clearly not the usual 

manner of birth. (The theology of the Virgin Birth of Mary is described in greater detail in my booklet, the 

Virginity of Jesus and Mary.)

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 The Virgin Mary's birth occurred at the same hour as the Birth of Jesus Christ, at 

about midnight, which is the beginning of the day according to the Christian calendar. 

    Notice that the time of Mary's birth (midnight) and the time of her death (3 p.m.; see chapter 10), as well as 

the time of her Resurrection (before dawn; see chapter 10), are the same as the time of day for these events in 

the life of her Divine Son Jesus Christ. Mary's life is a reflection of the life of Jesus Christ, even to the extent 

that some of the important events of her life happened at the same time of day as with her Son Jesus. In God's 

plan, the life of the Virgin Mary is a perfect imitation of the life of Jesus Christ. 

The Day of the Week 

    The Virgin Mary was born on a Tuesday. This may surprise some people who expect that important events 

in Jesus and Mary's lives most likely occurred on Christian or Jewish Sabbaths. But the month and day of the 

Virgin Mary's birth is quite certain, since she said so herself at Medjugorje. And the year, 30 

B.C.

, is clear from 

the arguments presented in this book about the rebuilding of the Temple and the year of Christ's Birth. In 30 

B.C.

, August 5 was a Tuesday.

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    Further support for Tuesday as the day of the Virgin Mary's birth is found in Blessed Anne Catherine's 

descriptions of the events surrounding that day. She mentions that Joachim and his servants went out to work 

in the fields the day before.

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 That day could not have been a Sabbath, because devout Jews did not work on 

the Sabbath. And there is no mention of a refrain from work, or of particular Jewish religious celebrations, in 

her description of the three days after the Virgin Mary's birth. Also, many people are said to have traveled to 

visit the new born Virgin Mary in the 3 days after her birth, with no mention of a cessation of travel for the 

Sabbath. There is also no indication in Blessed Anne Catherine's words that the day of Mary's birth was a 

Jewish Sabbath. If the day before, the three days after, and the day of the Virgin Mary's birth were not a 

Sabbath (Saturday), then she must have been born on either a Monday or a Tuesday. August 5 of 30 

B.C.

 was 

a Tuesday.

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    In 30 

B.C.

, August 5 coincided with the Jewish date of Av 26.

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 The fifth month of the Jewish sacred 

calendar is called Av. (The first month of the sacred calendar is Nisan, the month containing Passover.) 

The Virgin Mary's Naming Day 

    Sacred Scripture describes the day on which John the Baptist was given his name: 

     Now the time came for Elizabeth to be delivered, and she gave birth to a son. And her neighbors and 

kinsfolk heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. And on the eighth day 

they came to circumcise the child; and they would have named him Zechariah after his father, but his mother 

said, `Not so; he shall be called John.' And they said to her, `None of your kindred is called by this name.' 

And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he would have him called. And he asked for a writing tablet, 

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