The programme, called The Virgin Mary and shown an hour before the 9pm watershed on BBC1 on Sunday, suggested that Jesus was conceived after his mother was raped by a soldier when she was 12 or 13.

“Mary” is a fictionalized and heavily dramatized account of the life of the Virgin Mary ... shows up and announces that she is pregnant with Jesus, Mary is not entirely sure it wasn’t ...

Historically, devotion to the Heart of Mary grew up in parallel, but at a lesser intensity than that of devotion to the Heart of Jesus ... to love Christ and the Virgin Mary by speaking tirelessly ...

Oyamatsu first created a 50-centimeter-tall “Virgin and Child” statue, showing St. Mary with Jesus Christ in her arms. He sent the statue to the pope, along with a letter carrying the carver ...