A depiction of the betrothal of Mary and Joseph is included in a series on the life of the Virgin at St. Teresa’s Carmelite Church on Clarendon Street, Dublin. (Credit: Paraic Maher.) Listen ...

A newly betrothed couple is forced to register for a census in a town far away. The woman is nine months pregnant and when they finally reach their destination after an arduous journey, there is no… ...

During that time, Mary and Joseph would look forward to a missuin, a wedding ceremony, after which she would move out of her parents’ home. Raphael’s High Renaissance take on the betrothal of ...

Joseph has minor presence in the infancy narrative of Luke, much a woman’s story dominated by events surrounding Mary and Elizabeth. Joseph is mentioned as betrothed to Mary.

Known in the pre-Vatican II missal as the “Betrothal of Mary, Most Holy, and St. Joseph” or the “Espousal of Mary and Joseph,” in 1961, along with other feasts, it was removed from the ...

Out of a collection of more than 1,000 stained glass windows comprising one of the finest collections in North America, the “Light and Hope Exhibition” at Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale ...

While the Bible does not give the ages of Mary and Joseph, most Christians assume she would have been a teenager and Joseph an adult at the time of their betrothal and Jesus’ birth.