| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 2 |
| TABLE OF FIGURES | 6 |
| PREFACE | 7 |
| I. ANCESTORS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN | 8 |
| 1. THE ANCESTORS OF ST. ANNE —ESSENES. | 11 |
| 2. ST. ANNE AND ST. JOACHIM. | 30 |
| 2.1 JOACHIM IS SPURNED AT THE TEMPLE AND GOES TO STAY WITH HIS FLOCKS. | 37 |
| 2.2 ST. ANNE RECEIVES THE PROMISE OF FERTILITY AND TRAVELS TO THE TEMPLE. | 39 |
| 2.3 JOACHIM IS COMFORTED BY AN ANGEL AND RETURNS AGAIN TO THE TEMPLE TO SACRIFICE. | 42 |
| 2.4 JOACHIM RECEIVES THE BLESSING FROM THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. | 47 |
| II. THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION | 49 |
| 1. JOACHIM AND ST. ANNE MEET BENEATH THE GOLDEN GATE. | 49 |
| 2. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN. | 52 |
| 2.1 THE ANGELS ARE SHOWN THE RESTORATION OF MANKIND. | 52 |
| 2.2 AN EGYPTIAN REPRESENTATION OF MARY PRIOR TO ELIJAH. | 57 |
| 2.3 ELIJAH’S VISION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN. | 58 |
| 2.4 AN EXPOUNDING ON ELIJAH’S VISION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN. | 60 |
| 2.5 A REPRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN IN EGYPT. | 62 |
| 2.6 MARY PROCLAIMED TO PIOUS PAGANS. | 65 |
| 2.7 THE LIFE STORY OF TOBIAS. AN ALLEGORY OF THE COMING OF SALVATION. | 65 |
| 2.8 THE GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE MESSIAH. | 67 |
| 2.9 APPARITION OF SAINT ANNE. | 70 |
| 2.10 VISION OF THE FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. | 71 |
| 2.11 THE BLESSED VIRGIN REVEALS SECRETS ABOUT THEIR LIVES. | 73 |
| 2.12 CELEBRATION OF THE CONCEPTION OF MARY IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS. | 74 |
| 2.13 THE HOLY KINGS CELEBRATE A FEAST HONORING MARY’S CONCEPTION. | 77 |
| 2.14 ELIMINATION OF HUMAN SACRIFICE BY THE STAR-WORSHIPPERS. | 77 |
| 2.15 A PARALLEL VISION OF CHILD SACRIFICE. | 79 |
| 2.16 HISTORY OF THE CELEBRATIONS OF THE CONCEPTION OF MARY. | 80 |
| 3. THE ACTUAL SEASON OF MARY’S CONCEPTION (NOTE BY THE WRITER). | 82 |
| 4. THE INFUSING OF MARY’S SOUL AND HER BIRTH. | 84 |
| 4.1 THE UNITING OF MARY’S SOUL AND BODY. | 84 |
| 4.2 MARY’S BIRTH. | 85 |
| 4.3 JOY AT MARY’S BIRTH IN HEAVEN. | 88 |
| 4.4 THE PROCLAIMING OF MARY’S BIRTH IN LIMBO. | 88 |
| 4.5 AGITATION IN NATURE AND MANKIND AT MARY’S BIRTH. | 88 |
| 4.6 THE PROCLAIMING OF MARY’S BIRTH IN CHALDEA. | 89 |
| 4.7 EVENTS IN EGYPT DURING MARY’S BIRTH. | 91 |
| 4.8 VISITS WITH THE NEWBORN BABY MARY. | 92 |
| 4.9 THE CHILD RECEIVES THE NAME MARY. | 92 |
| 5. CAUSE OF THE FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF MARY. | 93 |
| 6. THE EFFECT OF PRAYING ON THE FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF MARY. | 96 |
| 7. THE PURIFICATION OF ST. ANNE. | 97 |
| III. THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN IN THE TEMPLE | 98 |
| 1. PREPARATION IN ST. ANNE’S HOUSE. | 98 |
| 2. THE DEPARTURE OF THE CHILD MARY FOR THE TEMPLE. | 106 |
| 3. BEGINNING THE JOURNEY. | 110 |
| 4. ARRIVAL IN JERUSALEM. | 115 |
| 5. MARY’S ENTRY INTO THE TEMPLE AND PRESENTATION. | 121 |
| IV. THE EARLY LIFE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN AT THE TEMPLE. | 128 |
| V. THE EARLY LIFE OF ST. JOSEPH | 130 |
| 1. AN ELDER BROTHER OF ST. JOSEPH | 136 |
| VI. A SON IS PROMISED TO ZECHARIAH | 138 |
| VII. MARRIAGE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN TO JOSEPH | 141 |
| 1. ABOUT MARY AND JOSEPHS WEDDING AND NUPTIAL CLOTHES. | 145 |
| 2. MARY’S WEDDING-RING. | 151 |
| 3. FROM MARY’S RETURN HOME TO THE ANNUNCIATION. | 154 |
| VIII. THE ANNUNCIATION | 156 |
| IX. THE VISITATION | 163 |
| 1. MARY AND JOSEPH TRAVEL TO VISIT ELIZABETH. | 163 |
| 2. MARY AND JOSEPH ARRIVE AT THE HOUSE OF ELIZABETH AND ZECHARIAH. | 166 |
| 3. THE BIRTH OF JOHN. MARY RETURNS TO NAZARETH. | 181 |
| X. THE CENSUS AND THE JOURNEY OF THE HOLY FAMILY | 183 |
| 1. THE CENSUS OF THE EMPEROR AUGUSTUS IS PROCLAIMED. CHRIST’S BIRTH IN NOVEMBER. | 183 |
| 2. ST. ANNE’S HOUSE IN NAZARETH. PREPARING FOR CHRIST’S BIRTH. | 183 |
| 3. JOSEPH IS TOLD TO TRAVEL WITH MARY TO BETHLEHEM. | 184 |
| 4. JOSEPH REVEALS TO MARY THE ANGEL’S COMMANDMENT. | 186 |
| 5. ON THE JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM | 186 |
| 5.1 THE FIELD GINIM. THE TRAVELERS ARE GIVEN A YOUNG SHE-ASS FROM ANNA’S PASTURE. | 186 |
| 5.2 TRAVELING AT NIGHT. MARY AND JOSEPH REST AT THE TEREBINTH OF ABRAHAM. | 188 |
| 5.3 TWO HOURS SOUTH OF THE TEREBINTH TREE. THEY REST IN AN EMPTY SHED. | 189 |
| 5.4 SABBATH CELEBRATION. | 191 |
| 5.5 THEY TRAVEL FURTHER SOUTH-EAST. THEY SEE THE TEMPLE ON MOUNT GARIZIM. | 191 |
| 5.6 BETWEEN SAMARIA AND JUDEA. THE FRUITLESS FIG TREE NORTH-EAST OF BETHANY. | 193 |
| 5.7 THEY STOP AT A SHEPHERD’S LARGE HOUSE. | 195 |
| 5.8 A HOUSE OWNED BY JOSEPH’S RELATIVES. THEY STAY AT AN INN CONDUCTING A FUNERAL. | 196 |
| 5.9 THE LAST STRETCH OF ROAD TOWARDS BETHLEHEM. THE GOODWILL OF THE INN OWNERS. | 197 |
| 6. THE ARRIVAL OF THE HOLY FAMILY IN BETHLEHEM. | 197 |
| 7. SEEKING LODGING IN BETHLEHEM. | 199 |
| 8. DESCRIPTION OF THE CAVE OF THE NATIVITY AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. | 201 |
| 9. THE BURIAL CAVE OF MARAHA, ABRAHAM’S NURSE, ALSO CALLED THE CAVE OF THE SUCKLINGS. | 206 |
| 10. THE HOLY FAMILY MOVES INTO THE CAVE OF THE NATIVITY. | 208 |
| 11. MARY CONCLUDES THE SABBATH IN THE BURIAL CAVE OF MARAHA. | 210 |
| XI. CHRIST’S BIRTH | 212 |
| 1. GREAT JOY IN NATURE. “GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST”. | 214 |
| 2. OCCURRENCES DURING THE BIRTH OF CHRIST IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. | 218 |
| 3. REVELATIONS OF THE BIRTH TO THE KINSWOMEN AND FRIENDS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN. | 218 |
| 4. OCCURRENCES DURING THE BIRTH OF CHRIST IN JERUSALEM. | 218 |
| 5. OCCURRENCES DURING THE BIRTH OF CHRIST IN ROME. | 219 |
| 6. OCCURRENCES DURING THE BIRTH OF CHRIST IN EGYPT. | 221 |
| 7. VISIONS APPEAR DURING THE BIRTH OF CHRIST TO THE THREE HOLY KINGS. | 221 |
| 8. VISION FRAGMENTS WHICH DETERMINE THE EXACT DATE OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. | 226 |
| 9. THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS. | 229 |
| 10. THE SHEPHERDS ASSIST ST. JOSEPH. ESSENE WOMEN RENDER SERVICE TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN. | 231 |
| 11. THE DONKEY KNEELS BEFORE JESUS. ST. ANNE’S MAID FROM NAZARETH COMES TO MARY. | 231 |
| 12. THE BLESSED VIRGIN HIDES FROM EMISSARIES OF HEROD. | 233 |
| 13. THE ANGEL’S APPEARANCE TO THE SHEPHERDS HAS BECOME WIDESPREAD. | 234 |
| 14. MANY PEOPLE VISIT THE CHILD JESUS ON THE WAY TO BETHLEHEM. JOSEPH PAWNS THE SHE-ASS. | 234 |
| XII. THE CIRCUMCISION OF JESUS | 235 |
| 1. PREPARATION FOR THE CIRCUMCISION. JOSEPHS FETCHS THE PRIESTS FROM BETHLEHEM. | 235 |
| 2. THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST. THE NAME JESUS. | 236 |
| 3. ELIZABETH VISITS THE MANGER. | 239 |
| 4. FAMILIARITY BETWEEN MARY AND ELIZABETH. MARY CONFIDES HER PAINS AND JOYS. | 239 |
| XIII. THE JOURNEY OF THE THREE HOLY KINGS TO BETHLEHEM | 242 |
| 1. THE KINGS SEE THE STAR AND BEGIN THEIR TRAVEL. | 242 |
| 2. VISIONS OF ABRAHAM, HAGAR, AND ISHMAEL. | 249 |
| 3. THEOKENO CATCHES UP TO THE TRAIN OF MENSOR AND SAIR IN A DESERTED CITY. | 251 |
| 4. THE HISTORICAL COLORS AND NAMES OF THE THREE HOLY KINGS. | 252 |
| 5. THE TRAIN OF THE THREE HOLY KINGS RESTS AT A SPRING. | 253 |
| 6. ABOUT THE HOMELANDS AND LENGTHS OF THE JOURNEYS OF THE THREE HOLY KINGS. | 257 |
| 7. NIGHT TRAVEL OF THE KINGS. | 259 |
| 8. THE ANCESTORS OF THE KINGS. THEIR STAR OBSERVATIONS – JACOB’S LADDER AND ITS PROPHESIES. | 261 |
| 9. THE KINGS TRAIN IS AUGMENTED WITH OTHER TRAVELERS. | 265 |
| 10. THE BLESSED VIRGIN FORESEES THE APPROACH OF THE THREE HOLY KINGS. | 266 |
| 11. JOSEPH CELEBRATES THE FEAST OF THE CONSECRATION OF THE TEMPLE. | 267 |
| 12. JOSEPH WANTS TO SETTLE DOWN IN BETHLEHEM. | 268 |
| 13. END OF THE FEAST OF THE CONSECRATION OF THE TEMPLE. | 268 |
| 14. THE TRAIN OF THE KINGS. ARRIVAL IN MANATHEA. | 270 |
| 15. ST. ANNE JOURNEYS TO BETHLEHEM. | 272 |
| 16. THE TRAIN OF THE KINGS CROSSES THE JORDON. | 276 |
| 17. THEOKENO IS SUMMONED TO HEROD’S PALACE. | 279 |
| 18. THE THREE HOLY KINGS APPEAR BEFORE HEROD. | 280 |
| 19. HEROD’S STATE OF MIND – A MURDER. | 281 |
| 20. THE HOLY THREE KINGS GO TO BETHLEHEM. THEY REST BY A SPRING. | 283 |
| 21. ARRIVAL OF THE THREE KINGS AT THE TAX-COLLECTION HOUSE IN BETHLEHEM. | 284 |
| 22. JOSEPH ENTERTAINS THE THREE HOLY KINGS. | 290 |
| 23. THE KINGS VISIT WITH THE HOLY FAMILY AGAIN. THEIR GENEROSITY TO THE SHEPHERDS. | 291 |
| 24. DEPARTURE OF THE KINGS. | 294 |
| XIV. THE HOLY FAMILY IN BETHLEHEM AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THE KINGS. | 295 |
| 1. MEASURES TAKEN IN BETHLEHEM AGAINST THE KINGS. JOSEPH IS EXAMINED AND BLACKMAILED. | 295 |
| 2. ST. ANNE RETURNS WITH ELIUD. | 296 |
| 3. THE HOLY FAMILY HIDES IN THE BURIAL CAVE OF MARAHA. | 299 |
| 4. JOSEPH TAKES THE BABY JESUS FROM MARY BECAUSE OF DANGER. | 300 |
| 5. COMMEMORATION OF MARY’S WEDDING. | 300 |
| 6. preparations FoR the departure OF the hOLY family. | 301 |
| XV. PERSONAL NOTES: RELICS NEARBY THAT THE THREE KINGS HAD GIVEN TO THE HOLY FAMILY. | 303 |
| XVI. THE PURIFICATION OF MARY | 309 |
| 1. A VIEW OF THE THREE HOLY KINGS ON THEIR JOURNEY HOME. | 316 |
| 2. SIMEON’S DEATH. | 316 |
| 3. THE ARRIVAL OF THE HOLY FAMILY AT ST. ANNE’S HOUSE. | 318 |
| 4. THE WEATHER IN PALESTINE. | 319 |
| 5. CANDLEMAS. | 320 |
| XVI. THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST IN THE DESERT | 322 |
| 1. THE AGE OF THE CHILD JESUS DURING THE FLIGHT TO EGYPT. | 322 |
| 2. NAZARETH. THE HOUSE OF THE HOLY FAMILY. | 323 |
| 3. JERUSALEM. HEROD’S PREPARATIONS FOR THE MURDER OF THE CHILDREN. | 323 |
| 4. HEROD PLACES SOLDIERS IN VARIOUS PLACES SURROUNDING JERUSALEM. | 324 |
| 5. PERSONAL NOTES: PRAYER DURING THE SEASON OF THE MARTYRDOM OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS. | 324 |
| 6. NAZARETH. ST. ANNE AND HER MAID BRING FOOD TO THE HOLY FAMILY. | 325 |
| 7. NAZARETH. A LOOK AT THE LIFESTYLE OF THE HOLY WOMEN. | 325 |
| 8. NAZARETH. AN ANGEL WAKES JOSEPH TO FLEE. | 326 |
| 9. NAZARETH. THE HOLY WOMEN PUT THINGS IN ORDER AND LEAVE JOSEPH’S HOME. | 328 |
| 10. THE GROVE OF MOREH. ABRAHAM’S TEREBINTH TREE. | 331 |
| 11. THE HOLY FAMILY RESTS BY A STREAM. | 331 |
| 12. JUTTAH. ELIZABETH TAKES JOHN INTO THE WILDERNESS. | 331 |
| 13. EPHRAIM BY THE MAMBRE WOODS. | 332 |
| 14. SOUTH OF HEBRON. JOHN SENDS THE THIRSTING JESUS A SPRING OF WATER. | 333 |
| 15. NEAR ANIM. THE LAST INN IN THE REGION OF HEROD. | 335 |
| 16. NIGHT TRAVEL. THE HOLY FAMILY STARTLES SNAKES AND FLYING LIZARDS. | 336 |
| 17. MARA (?). AN INHOSPITABLE DESERT. | 337 |
| 18. THE ROBBERS HUT. THE ROBBERS BECOME FRIENDLY. | 337 |
| 19. THE WILDERNESS. SNAKES AND FLYING LIZARDS. | 340 |
| 20. THE DESERT. A SPRING ARISES FROM MARY’S PRAYER. | 342 |
| 21. HELIOPOLIS, OR ON. | 342 |
| 22. HELIOPOLIS, ON. JOSEPH BUILDS A PLACE FOR JEWISH PRAYER. | 345 |
| 23. THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS. | 346 |
| 24. THE BOY JOHN ESCAPES AGAIN TO THE WILDERNESS. | 350 |
| 25. TRAIN TO MATAREA. AN IDOL FALLS AT THE FAMILY’S PASSING. | 351 |
| 26. MATAREA AND ITS POVERTY. | 353 |
| 27. ELIZABETH TAKES THE BOY JOHN AGAIN TO THE WILDERNESS. | 355 |
| 28. HEROD HAS ZECHARIAH CAPTURED, QUESTIONED, AND KILLED. ELIZABETH DIES. | 357 |
| 29. MATAREA. THE HOLY VIRGIN DISCOVERS A SPRING NEAR THEIR HOUSE. | 360 |
| 29.1 THE SPRING AT MATAREA – DISCOVERED BY JOB. | 361 |
| 29.2 THE SPRING AT MATAREA – ABRAHAM LIVES A LONG TIME BY IT. | 366 |
| XVII. THE RETURN OF THE HOLY FAMILY FROM EGYPT | 371 |
| XVIII. THE DEATH OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY AT EPHESUS | 375 |
| 1. REGARDING MARY’S AGE. | 375 |
| 2. MARY’S HOUSE IN EPHESUS. | 377 |
| 3. MARY’S MAIDSERVANT AND JOHN THE APOSTLE. | 379 |
| 4. MARY TRAVELS FROM EPHESUS TO JERUSALEM. | 381 |
| 5. RELATIVES AND FRIENDS OF THE HOLY FAMILY WHO ALSO LIVE IN EPHESUS. | 383 |
| 6. THE HOLY VIRGIN MAKES THE WAY OF THE CROSS FOR THE LAST TIME. | 384 |
| 7. TWO APOSTLES HAVE NOT YET ARRIVED. | 387 |
| 8. ARRIVAL OF SIMON THE APOSTLE. | 388 |
| 9. JERUSALEM AT THE TIME OF THE DEATH OF THE HOLY VIRGIN. | 389 |
| 10. THE APOSTLES HOLD A SERVICE. | 390 |
| 11. JAMES THE GREATER AND PHILIP ARRIVE. | 392 |
| 12. HOW THE APOSTLES WERE CALLED TO MARY’S DEATHBED. | 393 |
| 13. THE EFFECT OF RELICS OF THE APOSTLES ON THE VISIONS. | 396 |
| 14. THE DEATH OF THE HOLY VIRGIN. | 397 |
| XIX. THE BURIAL AND ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN | 407 |
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