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Jacobus de Voragine, [a] OP (c. 1230 – 13/16 July 1298) was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa.He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of the Golden Legend, a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church that was one of the most popular religious works of the Middle Ages.
Annunciation to Joachim and Anna, fresco by Gaudenzio Ferrari, 1544–45 (detail). The Gospel of James (or the Protoevangelium of James) [Note 1] is a second-century infancy gospel telling of the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary, her upbringing and marriage to Joseph, the journey of the couple to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and events immediately following.
[1] [2] Mary was the most common name for Jewish women of the period. [citation needed] Saint Anne and her daughters, the Three Marys, Jean Fouquet. The Gospels refer to several women named Mary. At various points of Christian history, some of these women have been identified with one another. [3] Mary, mother of Jesus; Mary Magdalene
Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee's sons. ( Matthew 27 :56) Catholic interpretation generally holds that James, the Younger is the same James mentioned in Mark 16:1 and Matthew 27:56 and it is to be identified with James, the son of Alphaeus and James, the brother of Jesus. [ 14 ]
According to the surviving fragments of the work Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord of the Apostolic Father Papias of Hierapolis, who lived c. 70–163 AD, "Mary, mother of James the Less and Joseph, wife of Alphaeus was the sister of Mary the mother of the Lord, whom John names of Cleophas". [2]
Queen of Heaven (Latin: Regina Caeli) is one of many queen titles used by Mary, mother of Jesus. The title derived in part from the ancient Catholic teaching that Mary, at the end of her earthly life, was bodily and spiritually assumed into heaven and that she is there honored as queen .
Papias of Hierapolis, who lived circa 70–163 AD, in the surviving fragments of his work Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord relates that Mary, wife of Alphaeus is the mother of James the Less: Mary, mother of James the Less and Joseph, wife of Alphaeus was the sister of Mary the mother of the Lord, whom John names of Cleophas, either from ...
Jacob is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. [1] Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan , Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh ), moved to Egypt where Jacob ...