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As the queen of heaven. and she hasnt stepped down since. >> they couldnt deal with the real mary. she was just too strong, too intelligent, too capable. they had to sort of pare her down, make her two-dimensional, just this icon. they had to make her virgin, and only virgin. >> and the icon, as centuries of artists have shown us, is blonde and blue-eyed. but the reality may come as something of a shock. >> i would assume that she looked like other middle eastern women, which would have been dar...

>> they couldnt deal with the real mary. she was just too strong, too intelligent, too capable. they had to sort of pare her down, make her two-dimensional, just this icon. they had to make her virgin, and only virgin. >> and the icon, as centuries of artists have shown us, is blonde and blue-eyed. but the reality may come as something of a shock. >> i would assume that she looked like other middle eastern women, which would have been dark haired and dark skinned. and she probably would have bee...

>> i would assume that she looked like other middle eastern women, which would have been dark haired and dark skinned. and she probably would have been about the same height as women of her time. and what we know about that is, thats probably five feet -- 51", 52", somewhere in there. >> and scholars say her name wasnt mary, but mariam, in the aramaic language she spoke in a small town called nazareth. it was a rural existence, governed by the rituals of jewish life, and by roman soldiers in the...

they have both been dead for nearly 2,000 years. one is venerated as the mother of jesus, the good virgin mary who said "yes" to gods request and who reigns from heaven crowned with stars. >> in a sense, you could say that christianity began the moment mary gave birth. in fact, you could say the whole modern world begins the moment mary gave birth. its the way we make dates, ount our age, our anniversaries and so on, from the moment mary gave birth. >> the other mary, called magdalene,...

in blockbuster movies and in best-selling books. and this, despite the fact that they have both been dead for nearly 2,000 years. one is venerated as the mother of jesus, the good virgin mary who said "yes" to gods request and who reigns from heaven crowned with stars. >> in a sense, you could say that christianity began the moment mary gave birth. in fact, you could say the whole modern world begins the moment mary gave birth. its the way we make dates, ount our age, our anniversaries...