Pennsylvania Woman Claims She Is Saint Mary’s Cousin

I would like to begin this article by saying that this is really quite an interesting story. As unbelievable as it may seem, a woman from Murraysville, Pennsylvania, claims she’s related to Virgin Mary, being the biblical figure’s cousin 65 times removed.

Now, you might say that we all are related to Adam and Eve, Virgin Mary and Jesus in one way or another, but Mary Beth Webb doesn’t mean it that way. The woman says she has actual proofs that she has more in common with Virgin Mary than a first name.

Webb says it has taken her two years to discover her connection to Jesus’ mother, but after long days of digging, she found out she is a blood biological relative to the biblical figure. How did she reach that conclusion, you might ask, as nobody knew that Saint Mary had living descendants.

According to Oddity Central, the woman used the website Ancestry.com, which is the largest genealogy service in the world, and managed to trace her lines all the way back to Virgin Mary. She allegedly discovered that she and Saint Mary have a common ancestor in the person of Saint Joseph of Arimathaea.

Saint Joseph of Arimathaea is the paternal uncle to Virgin Mary and is also mentioned in the Bible for providing the tomb that held Jesus Christ's body following his execution on the cross.

As it turns out, Webb discovered that she is connected to this Saint Joseph of Arimathaea, as his 64th great granddaughter. After making the surprising finding, she contacted the website to share the news, but a representative of Ancestry.com replied with skepticism. They said she most likely made a mistake somewhere in her research, but Webb disagrees and says she's sure her discovery is correct.

The woman began searching her ancestral roots in 2012 after years of “communicating” with her deceased mother, father and brother, but her interest in lineage stretches back about 15 years, when she lost her brother to cancer in 1999.

Mary’s cousin was the medium for those unearthly conversations. “My cousin and I have always had, like, this intuitiveness of being able to talk to people beyond Earth,” Mary said.

Webb has tons of notes to back up her story, as she has been documenting those interactions with her dead family members and has written a book titled “Tomorrow's Promise.” She says she understands that not everyone will believe her story, but she just hopes to help other grieving people who have lost loved ones.