The Seven Awesome Scenes Censored from the Nativity of Jesus

Merely a Shadow of a Dream

     I.   Zachel, the midwife, is brought to Mary
         by Joseph.

  II.   Zachel's hand is burned when she feels
         for Mary's virginal integrity.  

 III.   Zachel witnesses that Nature paused 
          during the Nativity--no wind, no waves,
          no flowing waters.

  IV.   Zachel witnesses that Mary turned
          snowy white.

    V.   Zachel witnesses that Infant Jesus 
          emerged from the birth canal as a 
          bright light that transformed into
          a new born baby.

  VI.   Zachel testifies that Infant Jesus
           had no weight, did not cry, but
           laughed, and looked at her with
           bright, flashing eyes.

 VII.   Zachel testifies that Mary did not
           suffer birthing pains, did not bleed,
           and remained virginally intact.

     Doth the substance of this tale wrong
the suborn'd Gospels?  Cunning Church
Fathers did calculate to obscure this strange
course of a greater birth.  What says Holy
Mother Church to His birth?

     And leave out Zachel?  There's the 
question.  This Latin Infancy Gospel * 
(circa AD 600-800) must bring the greater
birth to the world's light.  In search of His
greater birth, all truth appears. 

*Preserved in the Arundel 404 & Codex Hereford