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Virginia M. Kimball
VIRGINIA M. KIMBALL passed away on July 18, 2019. She was a devoted wife, mother of nine, and grandmother to 18. A Mariologist, she held a doctorate from the International Marian Research Institute in Dayton, Ohio. An author of scholarly works on Mary, she recently served as an adjunct professor in career and continuing education at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. Kimball is also remembered as a former president of the Mariological Society of America and former president of the Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary, USA.
The traditional icon of the Nativity is very different from what you usually find on Christmas cards, with Mary, baby Jesus, and St. Joseph clustered together in a barn over the manger. From ancient times, the Nativity icon has been an…