Mary, Mother of Jesus
Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the Mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament.
The gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament describe Mary as a Virgin; according to Christian teaching she conceived Jesus while a Virgin, through the Holy Spirit. The miraculous conception took place when she was already betrothed to Joseph. She accompanied Joseph to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born.