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Virgin Birth

A child conceived not by human father but by the Spirit, born of a virgin mother

The Virgin Birth is the belief that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary without a human father. It is narrated in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke and confessed in the Apostles' Creed, which states that he was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. It expresses the conviction that Jesus' coming was God's own initiative, joining divine action and a true human birth.

How it traveled

  1. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
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  2. Luke
    Rome · 84
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  3. Dialogue with Trypho
    Rome · 165
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  4. The First Apology
    Rome · 165
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  5. Against Heresies: Book III
    Lyons · 202
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  6. The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew.
    — · 220
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  7. On the Flesh of Christ.
    — · 220
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  8. An Answer to the Jews.
    — · 220
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  9. The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary.
    — · 220
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  10. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
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  11. The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
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  12. Ephraim Syrus: Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh
    Edessa · 373
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  13. The Incarnation of the Word
    Alexandria · 373
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  14. Ephraim Syrus: Fifteen Hymns For the Feast of the Epiphany
    Edessa · 373
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  15. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
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  16. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  17. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  18. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  19. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  20. A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed
    Aquileia · 411
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  21. The Letters of St. Jerome
    Bethlehem · 420
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  22. Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious Men
    Bethlehem · 420
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  23. The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary
    Bethlehem · 420
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  24. Against Jovinianus
    Bethlehem · 420
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  25. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  26. Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  27. Of Holy Virginity
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  28. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  29. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  30. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  31. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  32. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  33. The Harmony of the Gospels
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  34. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  35. The Seven Books of John Cassian on the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius
    Marseille · 435
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  36. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
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  37. The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great
    Rome · 461
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  38. John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
    Damascus · 749
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  39. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
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  40. A History of the Work of Redemption
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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