Welcome • User Guide
ToS • Privacy • Canary
Donate • Bugs • License

©2025 Poal.co

357

I've also heard of the Assumption of Mary, but I didn't realize that was the belief she was taken body and soul into heaven. I guess the pope just decided this in the 1950s.

They also believed she never sinned, ever. Impossible. Only God is this infallible.

I've also heard of the Assumption of Mary, but I didn't realize that was the belief she was taken body and soul into heaven. I guess the pope just decided this in the 1950s. They also believed she never sinned, ever. Impossible. Only God is this infallible.

(post is archived)

You are currently inside a comment thread.
Click here to see all the comments (49).
[–] • 1 pt

I don't know when the idea started of Joseph being a young man when he married Mary, but that's just not true. Joseph was 80 years old when he was charged with the task of being her guardian. He had already been married once before, had children, and lived a full life before he even met her. The only reason he married her was due to the fact that legal guardianship didn't exist yet.

[–] • 0 pt

Not that I doubt you, but how/where was his age documented? I always just assumed they were close to the same age since they were going to be married.

[–] • 1 pt

Church tradition states that he was 80 years old. The apocryphal text "History of Joseph the Carpenter", written in the fifth century, says he was 90. Also they didn't get married right away. She was only twelve when they met. Girls couldn't get married until they were at least 14.