MADAM SAINT ANNE

MADAM SAINT ANNE, her parents were STOLLANUS and EMERENTIA. STOLLANUS Traded in linen, making him a rich person of the day. I could not find anything to tell you about MADAM SAINT ANNE’S Grandparents –

MARY’S Dad was also a SAINT, he was SAINT JOACHIM born in 50 BCE in NAZARETH and died in 15 CE/AD in JERUSALEM, when JESUS was about 18 years old.

Her Mum was SAINT ANNE, she was born in 50 BCE and died in 12 CE/AD, when JESUS was about 15 years old.

MOTHER MARY, her brother was LAZARUS, her sisters were MARTHA, and SOBE. SOBER was the Mother of ELIZABETH, who was the mother of JOHN THE BAPTIST. ELIZABETH was 60 years old when she fell pregnant with JOHN, later to be known as JOHN THE BAPTIST, whose father was ZECHARIAH – JOHN THE BAPTIST, is known to be a LEVITE.

SAINT ANNE, was married three times and for some reason she names all her girls MARY, and this is how she concluded on their names :

MARY, mother of JESUS, was just so named, but
Then she married CLOPAS, and named their daughter, MARY OF CLOPAS
Then she married SOLOMAS, and named their daughter, MARY OF SALOME

Speaking of JESUS, being a NAZARENE, he followed the religion closely, in the way he managed his life and when JESUS supposedly ‘raised’ Lazarus from the ‘dead,’ it was not literal it was JESUS, allowing Lazarus back into the ‘inner chamber’ of the living church.

Let us have a look at his brothers, JUDE, was he a twin with THOMAS, who wrote the Gospel of Thomas? and SIMON, was he SIMON of CYRENE (no he was not, as CYRENE is an ancient Greek City in LIBYA) and JAMES, of course, he was JAMES the JUST and then there was JOSEPH – and JESUS had sisters, but we will visit with his brothers later again, as I could not find any information about JESUS’ sisters.

What is confusing is whether JAMES THE JUST was and is the same JAMES, JESUS’ brother, as I found that he could have been not a true ‘brother’ of JESUS, but was so called, as he was a cousin of JESUS or the son of JOSEPH of another marriage, as he seem to have been younger than JESUS. But then there was a lady named MARY of CLOPAS, MOTHER MARY’S half-sister – who was married to ALPHAEUS, who could have had a son called JAMES, and it is reported that this JAMES, was one of the 12 Apostles.

Let us take a look at who the 12 Apostles (Apostles means “one who is sent off) were and how they were listed –

1) Peter – Simon – Simon Peter, 2) James, son of Zebedee. 3) John, son of Zebedee, 4) Andrew, 5) Philip, 6) Bartholomew, 7) Matthew, 8) Thomas, 9) James, son of Alphaeus, 10) Simon the Zealot, 11) Thaddeus (Judas, son of James, in Luke) and finally number 12) Judas Iscariot.

No matter what, what is known is that JAMES and JESUS were close.

JAMES died in the year 62 CE/AD, thirty plus years after JESUS and lived well into the face of the ROMAN attack on JERUSALEM.

A puzzle as to what JESUS, meant when SIMON PETER said to the assembly “Let MARY leave us, for women are not worthy of ‘Life” and JESUS said, “I myself shall lead her in order to make her ‘male’, so that she too may become a LIVING SPIRIT resembling you ‘males’, for every woman who will make herself ‘male’ will enter the KINGDOM of HEAVEN”. I could not find the meaning of ‘who will make herself male’, a few such sayings, whose reasons we will never get to know.

Then there is the SECRET BOOK OF JAMES

A Book believed to have been written after the crucifixion by JAMES THE JUST, “JESUS is quoted as explaining how his followers must UNDERSTAND his TEACHINGS, “Pay attention to the WORD, UNDERSTAND KNOWLEDGE – LOVE LIFE and no one will persecute you, nor will anyone oppress you, other than you yourself.”

The Book of JAMES also condemns various sins such as Pride, Hypocrisy, Favoritism, Slander, he encourages ‘believers’ to humbly LIVE BY GODLY rather than WORLDLY Wisdom and to PRAY in all situations.