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The Martyrs of Nowogródek, also known as the Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek, the Eleven Nuns of Nowogródek or Blessed Mary Stella and her Ten Companions, were a group of members of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, a Polish Roman Catholic religious congregation, executed by the Gestapo in August 1943 in occupied Poland (present-day Novogrudok, Belarus).
Mary's Well" in Nazareth. Nazareth was a small village unmentioned in any writings before this time, though there is some archeological evidence that a village existed in the area at the time of Jesus. [1] The word "town" is from the Greek polis, which is used both for a big city such as Jerusalem and quite small settlements. [2]
Alleged "Mary's well" in Nazareth, 1917. In Matthew 2:23, the return to Nazareth is said to be a fulfilment of the prophetic word, "He shall be called a Nazarene".It is not clear which Old Testament verse Matthew might have had in mind; many commentators suggest it is Isaiah 11:1, where it says "A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit" (): the ...
The phrase "Jesus of Nazareth" appears seventeen times in English translations of the New Testament, whereas the Greek original contains the form "Jesus the Nazarēnos" or "Jesus the Nazōraios." [ c ] One plausible view is that Nazōraean ( Ναζωραῖος ) is a normal Greek adaptation of a reconstructed, hypothetical term in Jewish ...
Zealot is a cultural production of its particular historical moment—a remix of existing scholarship, sampled and re-framed to make a culturally relevant intervention in the early twenty-first-century world where religion, violence and politics overlap in complex ways. In this sense, the book is simply one more example in a long line of ...
Nazareth: Nazareth is where young Jesus grows up and where he is found in the Temple by his parents. [26] Sea of Galilee: The lake features prominently throughout the New Testament narrative, from the beginning of his ministry to the end. The calling of his first disciples takes place on the shores of this lake.
Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives (German: Jesus von Nazareth. Die Kindheitsgeschichten ) is a book written by Pope Benedict XVI , first published on November 21, 2012, by Image Books. The book is the third and final volume of the author's three-volume meditation on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ .
Luke 4:16–37 describes Jesus teaching regularly in the synagogue, cf. Luke 4:23, where Jesus, speaking in the Nazareth synagogue, refers to "what has been heard done" in Capernaum. [ 1 ] John 6 :22–59 : contains Jesus' Bread of Life Discourse ; verse 59 confirms that Jesus taught this doctrine in the Capernaum synagogue.