and some of them must have read that and said, aha! that's what it was. his birth was a miracle. >> whatever the truth of the bethlehem story, the star of the tale was jesus, not mary, whom the gospels mention just 13 times and not always by name. >> she's in there by virtue of her relationship to jesus, both as his mother and also, as luke portrays her, as a disciple of jesus. but the gospel writers were not interested that much in her story. >> so early christians and later scholars have had to fill in the blanks. the most popular tradition says she died at this church on mount zion, overlooking the hill where her son was crucified. and that she was taken to be buried in a tomb near where her son was betrayed, on the mount of olives. and within a few centuries, mary of nazareth would make a