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Blessed Virgin Mary
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English
Etymology
en la Beāta Virgō Marīa.
Proper noun
(the) Blessed Virgin Mary
en Christianity en Virgin Mary Mary, mother of Jesus.
en Blessed Virgin BVM
en 2020-03-03 Mary Norris (copy editor) Mary Norris Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/books/review/rust-memoir-steel-and-grit-eliese-colette-goldbach.html “Rust” has elements of Tara Westover’s “Educated,” but Goldbach’s background is not as extreme. She went to Catholic schools and asked the Blessed Virgin Mary for a sign that she should become a nun. https://web.archive.org/web/20250810003813/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/books/review/rust-memoir-steel-and-grit-eliese-colette-goldbach.html 10 August 2025
en Biblical characters Catholicism