What Is The Virgin Mary's Last Name???

Question

So its Mary ----- ????

WHAT IS IT?????

Answer 1

Last names are historically very recent.  They were rarely used until the early modern era (1600s on in Europe).  Before then people would often refer to "the house of" some important ancestor or the current patriarch.

Answer 2

There were no surnames at the time.  People were distinguished by familial, occupational or territorial association.

Jesus OF Nazareth

Joseph OF Arimathea

John THE Baptist

Joseph THE Carpenter

So, prior to her marriage to Joseph, she may have been known as Mary, daughter of Joachim.

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_mary

     Mary (mother of Jesus) was, according to Christian tradition, a Jewish resident of Nazareth in Galilee and known from the New Testament as the mother of Jesus of Nazareth .The New Testament describes her as a young maiden traditionally, Greek "parthenos" signifies an actual virginwho conceived by the agency of the Holy Spirit whilst she was already the betrothed wife of Joseph of the House of David and awaiting their imminent formal home-taking ceremony (the concluding Jewish wedding rite).

   Christians maintain that she was a virgin at the point of conception and at least until the birth of Jesus. The Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox Churches and some Protestant denominations also maintain that Mary remained a virgin throughout the rest of her life. Narratives of her life are further elaborated in later Christian apocrypha, who give the names of her parents as Joachim and Anne. Catholics hold that she also was conceived without original sin and who, when her earthly life had been completed, was assumed bodily into Heaven.

http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/mary.htm

Virgin Mary--The New Testament records that she was the cousin of Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist.She was betrothed and, later, married to Joseph. After giving birth to Jesus in a stable at Bethlehem, where she had gone with Joseph to register for a government census,

Mary returned to Nazareth to live quietly and humbly with her family (Luke 2:1-20).

     The doctrine of Mary's bodily assumption into heaven can be traced to apocryphal documents dating from the 4th century, but this doctrine was not officially formulated and defined for Roman Catholics until 1950 (see Assumption of Mary). The doctrine of Mary's Immaculate Conception was a matter of dispute throughout the Middle Ages. In 1854, however, Pope Pius IX declared that Mary was freed from original sin by a special act of grace the moment she was conceived in the womb of Saint Anne. (Tradition names Saint Anne and Saint Joachim as Mary's parents.)

     Luke also tells of Mary's perplexity at finding Jesus in the Temple questioning the teachers when he was 12 years old. The Gospel of John contains no infancy narrative, nor does it mention Mary's name; she is simply  referred to as "the mother of Jesus" (John 2:1-5; 19:25-27).

  http://tasbeha.org/content/hh_books/the_...

    The Church calls the Virgin by the surname of "the queen". That is why, many artists, when they draw the pictures of the Virgin,

they put a crown on her head, and she appears in the image, on the right side of the Lord Christ.  She was generated with a miracle, from sterile parents, with an annunciation from the angel.

We also give her the surname "the beautiful pigeon" in remembrance of the beautiful pigeon that carried to our father Noah a branch of olive tree, as a symbol of peace, bringing to him the good news of the deliverance from the waters of the flood.

    One of the surnames by which The Virgin has been described is "Theotokos" ("the mother of God". )

http://www.internetree.com/Surname%20Ori...

   The first known people to acquire surnames were the Chinese.  Legends suggest that the Emperor Fushi decreed the use of surnames, or family names, about 2852 B.C.  (almost 3 thousand years before the birth of Jesus Christ). Surnames as a rule did not appear until the 12th-14th centuries A.D. So, in this sense, the Virgin Mary had no "surname" as we know them today.

(By the way, guys, it is Mary MAGDALENE, believed by some to be the wife of Jesus, though it has never been proven to my knowledge)

Answer 4

Isn't it Magdalin

Answer 5

At the time of the birth of Jesus, Mary, the mother of Jesus, was the betrothed wife of Joseph, a carpenter from Nazareth, of the House of David.  Her Aramaic given name was Maryam, her Hebrew given name Miriam.  Apocryphal sources give her parents' names as Joachim and Anne.  Mary might otherwise have been known by a matronymic as Miriam bat Joachim "the daughter of Joachim" since the patryonomic "ben," meaning "son of" often followed the names of Jewish males, for example, James bar Joseph, for James, son of Joseph.

Mary was a relative of Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist;  Elizabeth was the wife of the priest Zechariah, and was herself of the lineage of Aaron, and so of the tribe of Levi.  Mary, however, is most likely a descendant of King David since the Gospel of Luke claims she is of the lineage of David just as the Gospel of Matthew claims Joseph is of the lineage of David.

Mary Magdalen or Magdalene, who was a completely different Mary, was a disciple of Jesus possibly from the village of Magdale on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.  According to the New Testament, she accompanied Jesus on his last journey to Jersualem, was a witness to the Crucifixion, found an empty tomb along with Mary, the mother of James,  talked to the risen Christ, originally mistaking him for a gardener, and was the first witness of the Resurrection.  The apocryphal Gospel of Philip depicts Mary Magdalene as a very close friend of Jesus or even possibly a wife: "And the companion of the [Savior is] Mary Magdalene.  [But Christ] loved her more than all the disciples and used to kiss her on . . ."  Here there is a hole in the text.

Surnames didn't come along until the Middle Ages in about the fourteenth century CE, although occasionally people in the New Testament were known by the village where they lived; for example, legend claims that Joseph of Arimathea was the uncle of Mary, the Mother of Jesus.

Answer 6

shes always being referred as "mary the mother of jesus" unknown.. or maybe she never had a last name?  

Answer 7

If you were to insist on a last name write the name:

Mary bint [father's first] or Mary bat [father's first name]

These would be "Mary daughter of _____" in Arabic and Hebrew.

Hope this helps.

Answer 8

People back in those times did not have last names:they were pretty much known by the place they came from...such as Jesus of Nazareth...etc. So she would have been Mary of Nazareth in Galilee...

Answer 9

It isn't Magdalin.

There were two Mary's in Jesus's life. His mother and his "disciple", Mary Magdalin.

I don't know if she has a last name, but I can ask my Youth Pastor and get back to you.

Answer 10

During that time period, people didn't have last names, they went by the place their family is from.

Answer 11

Smith