Having lost immortality, for many centuries humanity lived in the hope of salvation, of correcting its nature. The expectation of a Savior who would show the way to this was universal.

Many prophecies also said that the Mother of God, the Mother of the expected Savior of the world, would be born. The Old Testament prophets predicted the place and time of Her appearance.

So the prophet Isaiah wrote back in the 7th century before the birth of Christ: “So the Lord Himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin will be with child and give birth to a Son, and they will call His name Immanuel” (Is. 7 ,14).

The prophet Isaiah also predicted that our Lord Jesus Christ and His Most Pure Mother would come from the line of David.

On the pages of the Old Testament, long before the birth of the Most Holy Theotokos, one can also find foreshadowings of the most important circumstances of Her life: the origin of the Most Pure Virgin from the line of David, Her moral perfections, ever-virginity, greatness, glorification.