The Two Marys

Two women. Two yeses. Between them-all of heaven and earth.

The Two Marys tells the intertwined story of Mary, Mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene, the first to behold His resurrection. One brought God into the world; the other refused to let Him be forgotten. From Nazareth's silence to the garden's dawn, D. Michael Gross unites their voices in a symphony of obedience and endurance-the cradle answering the tomb.

Written in a luminous, literary-theological style, The Two Marys moves between history and mystery, exploring how faith begins in hiddenness and matures through loss. Each Mary becomes a mirror for courage: the courage to say yes before knowing the cost, and the courage to keep believing after paying it.

This work stands at the crossroads of scripture, devotion, and literature-where the divine meets the human, and holiness hides in humility. It is not a novel of invention, but a meditation on endurance: how the Word entered through one woman's willingness and returned through another's witness.

"The blood of birth and the light of resurrection-the same scarlet thread stitched through both."

The Two Marys is both ancient and immediate, scholarly and sacred-a book for readers who crave prose that worships while it speaks.