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Ephesians Part 2: A New Family

Exploring My Strange Bible

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The Madonna and Child

The Church of the Annunciation is a Catholic church building. It's there to commemorate the moment in the story where the angel comes to Mary and announces to her that she's pregnant with Jesus, the Messiah. The max population of Nazareth and Jesus is about 500. So he's from small, podunk hill country town. And this image has become kind of a fixed image in Western art.

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