It is one of those great moments that ends up being a song, or a painting. Over the years it becomes a symbol of peace and hope, and everything good. Mary is a young girl whose life has been turned upside down. It might have been for a very good cause, but it still meant that everything in her world had changed, and she was trying to figure out what it all meant.

We aren’t told why she made the trip, but at some point, Mary went to the town of Hebron to visit with her aunt Elizabeth, the wife of a priest named Zechariah. The priests of Aaron were one of two families who were descended from a long line of temple priests and took turns performing the routine jobs at the temple in Jerusalem. We believe Elizabeth lived in Hebron, which is south of Jerusalem, and a long way from Mary’s home in N…