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Now you don't have to go all the way to Fatima to see her; Lifetime's
Intimate Portrait: Virgin Mary shows you the life and times of history's most famous woman. Citing both traditional and apocryphal Gospels, historians and theologians have pieced together the likeliest course of her life, filling in around the few concrete details known about her. Her birth and childhood in a traditional Jewish family, her betrothal to Joseph, her miraculous conception and birth, her child rearing, and her life after the Crucifixion are each examined with warmth and humanity. Illustrated with great works of art inspired by her story and reenactments of important and mundane events in her life, you'll get a sense of a living, breathing Mary quite different from the iconic images passed on from one generation to the next. Whether or not you're a believer, you'll find her remarkable life well worth learning more about.
--Rob Lightner
