The interwoven story of two births - those of John the Baptist and of Jesus of Nazareth - is a story that appears in the first chapter of Luke's Gospel as (apparently) Mary's account in a single narrative, bound together by the visitation of the Angel Gabriel to two different homes, first in Judea, then six months later in Galilee. Of course the two lives interwoven were not of equal status. John the Baptist, born of an earthly father was to be the...