Timeline for How old were Joseph & Mary when they marrried?
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| Sep 9, 2014 at 7:50 | comment | added | user13992 | @Jay Thanks! that's why I opened with it does not belong to the deposit of faith. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 13:17 | comment | added | Jay | Quite true, I don't think we're disagreeing. It is quite possible that Mary was in her mid teens when she got married, arguably even likely, as that was common at the time. My point is just that, to the best of my knowledge, we don't have any document from the times that says, so we don't know. For all we know she could have been an old spinster. :-) | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 8:49 | comment | added | user13992 | @Jay Those are just FYI. I always look to Catholicism to understand Israel and vice versa. Mary marrying at that age is not a shocker to both traditions. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 5:38 | comment | added | Jay | Not saying that you said otherwise, but just to be clear: The Code of Canon Law was written centuries after Mary and Joseph, so would not have applied to them. And in any case, any law that sets a minimum age tells us at most that they were AT LEAST this age, not that they were EXACTLY this age. And even at that we can't be sure that they didn't break the rules, with or without some official exemption. | |
| Sep 1, 2014 at 19:56 | history | edited | user13992 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added marriage age according to Canon Law and Jewish law.
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| Sep 1, 2014 at 9:19 | history | answered | user13992 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |