Virgin

Virgin is an abbreviation of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the Christian Religion. In the Catholic Church she is counted among the saints. She is stated as "The Virgin", because, according to the New Testament, she gave birth to Jesus Christ being a virgin. Mary isn't mentioned often by the earliest Church, and usually just in a comparison to Eve. In the Medieval Age though, she grew more popular due to the facts that Jesus wasn't considered being human anymore (which made her the "Mother of God"), her "perpetual virginity", the assumption that she was without stain of original sin from the moment she was born, and the conjecture that she was (together with Jesus Christ) the "co-redemptress" of humanity.

Since 1950, the Catholic Church officially announced that Mary had a bodily assumption into heaven like Jesus Christ had. Nowadays, she is one of the most prominent, if not the most prominent, saint of the Catholic Church. As a consequence, there are several feasts to worship her. The major ones are the Purification (2 Feb.), Annunciation (25 Mar.), Visitation (2 July; nowadays 31 May), Assumption (15 Aug.), and Nativity (8 Sept.)[1]

Icon of the Virgin Mary, 16th century. St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai.

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[1] John Bowker, "Mary, Blessed Virgin," The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Virgin_Mary.aspx#2