The Virgin Mary tells the Christmas story.

"When Josephine Bakhita was about nine years old, she was kidnapped near Darfur, Sudan, by Arab slave traders. For several years she was subjected to brutal and humiliating treatment until she was bought by an Italian and taken to Venice, Italy, where she later became a Catholic and a nun. Joyfully and serenely Bakhita served in a convent, school, and infirmary run by Canossian sisters in a small, obscure town in northern Italy until her death in...

An illustrated story of the mother of Jesus.

One morning, a middle-aged writer goes into her living room to water the plants and finds a woman wearing a trench coat and white shawl over her hair, holding a small black suitcase on wheels standing in front of the fig tree. She is the Virgin Mary. Invited to stay for lunch, Mary explains that, after two thousand years of petition, adoration, and traveling, she is tired and needs some R and R. She ends up staying for one extraordinary and illuminating...