There are thousands of legends of Mary, Christ’s mother, but one of my favorites relates to Easter Sunday—the first Easter Sunday. The Golden Legend, an important collection of medieval stories of the saints, says this about Mary, adding to the biblical role that she played after Christ’s Passion:
The third apparition [of the resurrected Christ on Easter Day] was to the Virgin Mary and is believed to have taken place before all the others, although the evangelists say nothing about it.. . . . [I]f this is not to be believed, on the ground that no evangelist testifies to it . . . perish the thought that such a son would fail to honor such a mother by being so negligent! . . . Christ must first of all have made his mother happy over his resurrection, since she certainly grieved over his death more than the others. He would not have neglected his mother while he hastened to console others.
Indeed! I’m a believer.
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