At 11:44 AM 3/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I have always thought it interesting that the Feast of the Annunciation
>(same as the Salutation, I presume), which I've understood to mark the day
>that Mary got pregnant, is exactly 9 months before Christmas. Do the Welsh
>think that Jesus was a 6-month premie (sp?)? ;)
maybe the annunciation came at the three-month point when mary began to
wonder if she were -- incomprehensibly -- pregnant.
r
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