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	VIRGIN MARY See Protoevangelium of James for much of the iconography of the Life of the Virgin popular in the Middle Ages External Site (New Advent Site)
	Birth of the Virgin
	Birth of the Virgin, stained glass, Boppard on the Rhine, 1440s, The Burrell Collection, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries. Two midwives attend St. Anne. One prepares the bath for the Virgin.
	Holy Kindred (Holy Family; "Heilige Sippe") the Extended Family of Christ.  Essay and additional images: click here.
	Throne of Mercy window © Raguin/MMK, Holy Trinity Church Goodramgate, York, 1470.
	Below is the Virgin Mary with the extended family of Christ      in center: Trinity Crowning the Virgin Mary (head restored) © Raguin/MMK      to the right: St. Mary Salome, Zebedee and children, the future Apostles            John and James (children are medieval stopgaps)      center left: Virgin Mary as child with parent Anne and Joachim      to left: St. Mary Cleophas husband and four children
	Chancel screen of Ranworth (Norfolk), Church of St. Helen.The south group of four women with their children is the Holy Family "Holy Kindred," the extended family of Jesus: the Virgin Mary, her sisters Mary Salome and Mary Cleophas and St. Margaret, patron saint of childbirth.
	Annunciation
	Annunciation © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, from the Pilgrimage Church, Kenz, Pomerania (Germany), 1400-1410.
	Annunciation © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, East Harling, c. 1463-80
	Visitation
	Visitation © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, East Harling, c. 1463-80. Elizabeth is in laced maternity clothes
	Nativity
	Nativity © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, Church of Saints Peter and Paul, East Harling, c. 1463-80. Virgin contemplates the child (as in Bridget of Sweden’s Revelations); two midwives are in the background.
	Mary in bed with child, sculpture, c. 1300, Southern German, Bayerische Staatsmuseum, Munich.
	Adoration of the Magi
	Adoration of the Magi © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, Church of Saints Peter and Paul, East Harling, c. 1463-80.
	Adoration of the Shepherds
	Adoration of the Shepherds © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, Church of Saints Peter and Paul, East Harling, c. 1463-80.
	Presentation in the Temple, stained glass, Cologne, c. 1460, Sacraments Chapel of the Cathedral of Cologne
	Purification
	Purification © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, Church of Saints Peter and Paul, East Harling, c. 1463-80. Purification [Churching] was an important social as well as religious activity. The ritual "purification" of a woman after childbirth was based on Mosaic Law (Lev. 12). The practice was reiterated in the Gospel of Luke 2:22-24, describing the Purification of the Virgin who offered "a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons" since the family was too poor to offer a lamb. In the East Harling window Joseph is shown carrying a cage with two white doves.
	Flight into Egypt
	Flight into Egypt © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, Cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1180
	Finding of the Boy Jesus in the Temple
	Finding of the Boy Jesus in the Temple © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, Church of Saints Peter and Paul, East Harling, c. 1463-80.
	Virgin of Pity
	Virgin of Pity (pieta) with Dead Christ in her Arms © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, 1470s.
	Virgin of Pity (pieta) with Dead Christ in her Arms © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, Church of Saints Peter and Paul, East Harling, c. 1463-80.
	Dormition of the Virgin
	The Virgin only appeared to die - she "slept," (thus the term Dormition) to be assumed into heaven, bodily, to sit beside her resurrected son, Christ. Thus both Christ (as God) and Mary (as his mother) display the glory of the transfigured body promised to all believers at the Last Judgment. The Apostle and Nicean Creeds, accepted by most Christian denominations, profess the "resurrection of the body."
	Funeral Procession of the Virgin (above) and The Virgin is laid in her tomb by the 12 Apostles (below) Window of the Dormition of the Virgin , Cathedral of Angers, France, c 1190-95 © Raguin/MMK
	Detail, The Virgin is laid in her tomb by the 12 Apostles, Window of the Dormition of the Virgin , Cathedral of Angers, France, c 1190-95 © Raguin/MMK
	Dormition of the Virgin, Cologne,  Schnütgen Museum, Germany c. 1250-60 © Raguin/MMK
	Three Marys at the grave of Christ
	Three Marys at the Grave ( Mark 16:1) Virgin in the center, Mary Magdalene (with loose hair) to left, and, to the right, Mary Salome the mother of the Apostles St. James the Greater and St. John the Evangelist.  Stained glass, Carmelite church, Boppard on the Rhine, 1440s, Detroit Institute of Arts.
	Pentecost (descent of the Holy Spirit) with Virgin in the Center
	Pentecost with Virgin in the Center © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, Church of Saints Peter and Paul, East Harling, c. 1463-80
	Coronation of the Virgin
	Coronation of the Virgin, sculpture, Chartres Cathedral, north transept, central portal, c. 1220 © Raguin/MMK
	Coronation of the Virgin by the Trinity, Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York, 1470, © Raguin/MMK
	Coronation of the Virgin with donor couple, Theoderic and Gertrude, stained glass, Cologne, 1250-60, Schnütgen Museum, Cologne, Germany
	Virgin in Glory
	Virgin in Glory © Raguin/MMK, stained glass, Church of Saints Peter and Paul, East Harling, c. 1463-80.