Elizabeth was the mother of John the Baptist, the wife of Zechariah and a relative of Mary, mother of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke. She was past normal child-bearing age when she conceived a
Saint Elizabeth by an anonymous Provençal, late 15th century
15th century depiction of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, with Elizabeth on the left
Mariotto Albertinelli's imagining of Elizabeth (right), here pictured with Mary
Jacopo da Pontormo, Visitation (1528–1529)
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The Magnificat is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary or Canticle of Mary, and in the Byzantine Rite as the Ode of the Theotokos. Its Western name derives from the incipit of its Latin text. Th
Visitation, by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1491), depicts Mary visiting her elderly cousin Elizabeth.
Translations of the Magnificat into various languages at the Church of the Visitation in Ein Karem
The Visitation in the Book of Hours of the Duc de Berry; the Magnificat in Latin
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