“They have no wine,” the Bible says she told her son at a wedding. Her son, in his first reported miracle, created wine.
Mary barely speaks in the New Testament, but now, 2,000 years after her life, people venerate her worldwide. Early this month, Masses were held (above, in Poland) celebrating her assumption into heaven. Miracles have been ascribed to her. “She is my mamá,” Pope Francis once said.
How did she become the most powerful woman in the world?
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