[Magdalen] Images and words about Mary

Sibyl Smirl polycarpa3 at ckt.net
Sun Jan 31 00:44:04 UTC 2016


On 1/30/16 5:49 PM, ME Michaud wrote:
> LOL. Rather traditional to see Joseph depicted with a white beard in icons,
> so it's been around for awhile. And my Catholic friends claim Joseph was a
> widower (to explain the rhetorical question about Jesus' brothers and
> sisters in (Matthew 13. That is, they're half-siblings.)

Also, the word in Greek, "adelphoi" can mean "cousins" or "kinfolk".


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Sibyl Smirl
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