According to Mary Sawyer's account, the lamb was a female. Sarah Hale's poem says it was a male. Sawyer is probably the source with reason to know. Wikimedia Commons Mary had a little lamb.

According to some theologians, such as Garrigou-Lagrange in Mary, Mother of the Savior and De Domenico in his True Devotion to St. Joseph and the Church, Joseph belongs to the hypostatic order as ...

According to the Gospels, Mary, a virgin betrothed to Joseph, conceived Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit – and therefore Christians consider Jesus the Son of God. However, most Christians ...

“Mary Had a Little Lamb” is perhaps one of the most famous nursery rhymes in history. What’s less well known is the story behind the poem. There was indeed an actual Mary and she did actually have a ...