Ever wonder why tabbies have the "M" on their forehead?
Dec 13, 2014 17:40:57 GMT -5
Post by Shoshanna on Dec 13, 2014 17:40:57 GMT -5
OK, it's just a silly legend, but I thought it was sweet. I saw it just after I was wondering what kind of pets Jesus had as a boy.
Ever wonder why tabbies have the "M" on their forehead?
The story of the "M" goes back to the birth of Jesus. As the story goes, when the babyJesus was lying in the manger, he began to shiver from the cold. Mary draped blankets over the infant, but he continued to shiver.
She spoke softly. "I don't know what to do. I thought you were hungry, so I fed you. I thought you were wet, so I changed your diaper. I thought you were cold, so I wrapped another blanket around you." She asked the animals in the stable to move closer so that their body heat would warm Jesus, but the child continued to shiver and cry.
She rocked the infant and then laid him back in a manger filled with hay. He continued to cry.
A small tabby cat who'd witnessed the scene knew what needed to be done. She leaped into the manger, cuddled next to the child and began to purr. It was the sweetest lullaby imaginable. The baby stopped crying and drifted off to sleep.
In her gratitude to the cat, Mary marked her own initial upon the tabby's forehead so that tabby cats would forever remind the world of how one of their kind had comforted the newborn Jesus.
Ever wonder why tabbies have the "M" on their forehead?
The story of the "M" goes back to the birth of Jesus. As the story goes, when the babyJesus was lying in the manger, he began to shiver from the cold. Mary draped blankets over the infant, but he continued to shiver.
She spoke softly. "I don't know what to do. I thought you were hungry, so I fed you. I thought you were wet, so I changed your diaper. I thought you were cold, so I wrapped another blanket around you." She asked the animals in the stable to move closer so that their body heat would warm Jesus, but the child continued to shiver and cry.
She rocked the infant and then laid him back in a manger filled with hay. He continued to cry.
A small tabby cat who'd witnessed the scene knew what needed to be done. She leaped into the manger, cuddled next to the child and began to purr. It was the sweetest lullaby imaginable. The baby stopped crying and drifted off to sleep.
In her gratitude to the cat, Mary marked her own initial upon the tabby's forehead so that tabby cats would forever remind the world of how one of their kind had comforted the newborn Jesus.