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Did St. Mary have more children?

The Holy, Ever-Virgin, Saint Mary, the Theotokos, Mother of God, was a virgin before the birth of Christ, during the birth of Christ, and after the birth of Christ. The Coptic Orthodox Church relies on the non-contradictory prophecies throughout the Old Testament that direct us only to the conclusion of the ever-virginity of Saint Mary, the Beautiful Dove. "And the Lord said to me, 'This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the Lord God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut'" (Ezekiel 44:1,2). Therefore, it is not acceptable to entertain the notion that she might have had more children. We are her children. Our Lord Jesus Christ, while on the cross, delivered her to the care of St. John the Beloved as his mother, and he, as her son. Therefore, we too became her children, and she, in turn, our mother (John 19:26,27). It is inconceivable that if the holy Virgin had other children of her own that they would have left her to endure this brutal agony alone.