virgin mary

He hits bottom at Rocamadour, a sanctuary in the Dordogne known as a citadel of faith devoted to Mary.

Gillingham tells Mary that he wants to make their lives simpler, but it sounds a little like the dying of the light.

Then again, this is not the high-spirited Mary we met in Season 1—indeed, none of the Crawleys are the same.

Maybe Mary is being more realistic about a second marriage—but is it too much to ask for a little fire?

Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon labels the show a “crass stunt” on a “bottom-feeding vortex of sadness network.”

The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”

Mary is fair as the morning dew— Cheeks of roses and ribbons of blue!

I was thinking of any thing but the Virgin, or the window, or the light; I was thinking of my companion—so fair, and so devout.

She fixed her imploring eyes on the Virgin's face and on the saints; but all seemed to her to wear a forbidding look.

Were they to be driven out,—driven out this very day, when the Virgin had only just now seemed to promise her help and protection?