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‘ He was the Son of God,’ the man said, ‘and he was sent by his father to redeem the world’. To her the death of her son is not the fulfilment of a spiritual destiny but a brutal and unnecessary sacrifice that angers her. She doesn’t share the euphoria of Jesus’s devout followers. It is as if the realisation of the scenario she feared most, liberated her. And the fear for her own potential implication in her son’s actions gradually grows to contempt and rebellion. But through Mary’s eyes we see it as an intensely personal, human event, the finale of a carefully calculated set-up to legitimise the killing of someone who was challenging the status quo.
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The story of the killing of Jesus and his subsequent rising from the dead is one of the most famous narratives in the world, the cataclysmic “birth” of one of the world’s dominant religions. Compounding this is her shame that fear for her own safety prevented her from being at his side at the moment of his death. It peels away the religious dogma and leaves the anger, frustration and terrible loss of a loving mother who could not protect her son from a looming danger to which she had become increasingly alert. Based on Toibin’s stage play, Testament, it reveals the tangle of emotions overwhelming Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, in the period leading up to and directly following her son’s death. Yet emotion vibrates from the pages with such intensity that the book’s impact lingers long after you have finished. At 104 pages, The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin, seems too slight to do justice to the enormity of its subject.