The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The feast of the birth of the Blessed Vir gin Mary goes back to the sixth cen tury and is often cel e brated on Sep tem ber 8. The Scrip ture does not tell us about the birth of the Vir gin Mary. How ever, we learn more about Mary before the Annun ci a tion from the Pro to e van gelium of James (an apoc ryphal gospel writ ten about A.D. 150) and the Gospel of the Nativ ity of Mary (a non-canonical New Tes ta ment writing).