Mary's Aging

[Lil Red]

this may well be a stupid question (hey, it's me, whaddya expect?) but....

did Mary experience normal signs of aging, like wrinkles, gray hair, etc?

(i'm wondering this because my mind wandered at Mass while the priest was talking about Mary being preserved from corruption by being assumed into heaven. my mind went from corruption ---> death----> aging is a sign of corruption? ----> wrinkles ------> Mary didn't have wrinkles? also, just as an aside, I quite like the image of Mary having laugh crinkles around her eyes.)

[CatherineM]

I wish our Marianologist was still answering questions. Mary was fully human, so she must have suffered through the indignities of aging. She was probably at least 46 when Jesus died and as old as her 70's. I suspect she was late 40's to early 50's. She lived a life of hot sun and a lack of sunscreen and age defying makeup. It was also a time when people had a much lower life expectancy. She may have looked more like Mother Theresa than Angelina Jolie towards the end of her life. Mary just didn't have to suffer the indignity of decomposition in the ground.