Perhaps little known to the world is the life of Mary, a person holy to God, while in her mother's womb, Anna. Anna was very, very old, and desolate for not having a child, until one day, an angel of God, believed to be Archangel Michael, who came to tell her and her husband that they would soon be the parents of a baby girl. The angel appeared to both of Mary's parents at separate times and places. Afterwards the angel told Anna to meet up with her husband at the golden gate, and she did. From there they told of their angel encounter and about how they would become parents of a baby girl. Soon afterwards Anna conceived and gave birth to Mary. Mary was a holy child from the onset, and was brought to live and be raised in the holy temple of God just as Samuel had been prior. At age three, when Mary was weaned from her mother, she was brought to the temple to be raised there. Her parents were very well to do. Her father arranged that other young children should be raised in the temple with Mary so she would have company and not be alone.