
12/26/2024
Merry Christmas!! 🐾❤️💚🐾. I started a tradition a few years back of picking one of my tabbies and telling them a Christmas story. I started with my sweet Paisley (who passed away in 2018) This year I picked Raziel (who I rescued last Christmas), Jinxx (rescued from my yard last year), Rose, Gary (rescued by in her neighborhood) and Theodore (rescued by ).
Mommy—Tell me the baby Jesus story of why there is an “M” on my head.
One of the most popular legends of the “M” on tabby cats’ foreheads goes back to the birth of Jesus and the exchange shared between Mary, the mother of Jesus, and a cat. Right after the birth of Jesus, Mary had placed Jesus in a bed of hay. However, the hay didn’t provide enough warmth, and baby Jesus began to shiver and cry from the cold. Mary asked all the animals in the manger to huddle together to garner more warmth, but the manger still remained too cold.
A small tabby, who witnessed the scene, decided to step in and lay next to baby Jesus. The cat cuddled with baby Jesus and purred a lullaby that soothed and comforted him. Jesus stopped crying and drifted off to sleep. In her gratitude, Mary stroked the cat’s head and marked her initial upon the tabby’s forehead to forever remind the world that one of their kind had comforted baby Jesus. Catstar.com