[bkaycee]

Mary remained a virgin in order to provide an incontrovertible evidence of the miraculous nature of the birth of Christ, and, quite simply, because her intimacy with God made sex superfluous.

Is a partnership with intent to never consummate the union a legal marriage?

Would a Rabbi perform this ceremony knowing the details?

Would this not be mocking God and marriage He created?

Do priests marry many people who intend to be celibate?

[metmom]

Mary remained a virgin in order to provide an incontrovertible evidence of the miraculous nature of the birth of Christ, and, quite simply, because her intimacy with God made sex superfluous.

How does one know this as well? Did she say that?

God created Adam and Eve with the capability of procreating. He obviously intended them to do so. They were sinless and walked with God in the cool of the day and yet there was obviously the plan that they would have sex and children.

[annalex]

Not ordinarily, but a temple virgin dedicated to celibacy would be married off to an older man, typically a widower, so that she can be taken care of economically. The Protoevangelium describes just that, and whether or ot you think it applies to Our Lady, it clearly was not in itself an outlandish idea back in 2c.

“I know not man”, she said. A woman intending to have children with her fiancee does not respoind like that.