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Joachim a rich man offers to the Lord is opposed by the high priest Reuben because he has not children, Joachim retired to the wilderness and fast for fourth days and nights, Anna, Joachim wife mourns her barreness, Reproaches by it by her maid Judith, She sit under a laurels tree and prays to the Lord, Anna perceiving a sparrows nest in the laurels bemoans her barreness, Angles tells Anna she will conceived a child, She will name her Mary, Two angles appear to her in the same errand, Joachim sacrifices, Anna meets Joachim rejoicings that she shall conceive,Joachim abides the first day in this house but sacrifices on the morrow, joachim consults the plate on the priest's forehead, It's without sin, Anna brings forth a daughter named Mary, Mary at nine months old walks nine steps, Anna keeps her holy, when she is a year old Joachim gives a great feast, Anna gives her breast and sings a song to the Lord, Mary being three years old her father had virgin's light each a lamp and god with her to the temple, High priest placed Mary on the third step of the altar where she danced with her feet, Mary was fed in temple by the angles, At twelve the priest consulted what to do with her, The angle of the Lord warms Zacharias to call all the widowers together each bringing their rods. People meet at the sound if the trumpet, Joseph throws away his hatchets and goes to the meeting, A dove comes forth from his rod and lights on his head, He is chosen to mary Mary, He refuses because he is an old man, He is compelled, He takes her home and goes to mind his tad of building,Priest desire a new evil for the temple,seven virgin's cast lots for making different parts of the veil, The lot is spin the true purple falls on Mary, zacharias the high oreist becomes dumb, Mary takes a pot to draw water and hears a voice, She trembled and begins work, An angle appears and tells her she shall conceived by the Holy Ghost, She shbmits, She visit her cousin Elizabeth, whose child in her wombs leaps,Joseph returns to find Mary with child, He leaves her determined to dismissed her privately, An angle warms Joseph in a dream that Mary is with child by the Holy Ghost, He glorified God who heath sheen him such favor,Annas visits Joseph seeing Mary with child reported it to the high preist, Mary and Joseph brought to trail to answer charge, Joseph drinks the water of the Lord and ordered and receiving no harm, returns home,A degree from Augustus for taxationof the jews,Joseph and Mary go to Bethlehem, Her time is near, Joseph leaves Mary on cave to seek a Hebrew midwife, He notice everything and everyone has stop moving, Joseph finds a midwife, Bright cloud overshadow the cave, a great light in them cave gradually increases until they infant is born, The midwifes Wes out to tell Alone what she saw, Alone doubts it, Her hand withers, She supplicated the Lord, She is cures but warned not to declare what she has seen,Wise men come from the east, Herod inquired if them about the child, Herod wants them to bring him word of they find him, They visit the cave and offer their treasures, Being warned in a dream did not return to Heriod, They went home another way, Heriod enraged ordered all infant's in Bethlehem to be slain, Mary puts her infant in an oz manger, Elizabeth flies with her son,John,to the mountains. The mountains divide and allow Elizabeth and son to resident with an angle. Herod incenses at the escape of Elizabeth and John causes zacharias her husband and high priest to be murdered at the altar, The roof's of the temple rent, the body of zacharias miraculously convoyed and his blood petrified, Is real mourns for him, Simeon chosen his successors by lot.