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    The brothers of Jesus or the adelphoi (Ancient Greek: ἀδελφοί, romanized: adelphoí, lit. 'of the same womb, brothers') are named in the New Testament...
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  • Brothers of the Cross of Jesus were a French order of Roman Catholic monks. It was founded in 1820 at Lyons, France, by Father C.M. Bochard, Doctor of...
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    in the New Testament as brothers of Jesus, were not the biological children of Mary, mother of Jesus, but were cousins of Jesus, or step-brothers from...
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    The crucifixion of Jesus was the death of Jesus by being nailed to a cross. It occurred in 1st-century Judaea, most likely in AD 30 or AD 33. It is described...
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    consecrated the priests to the Sacred Heart of Jesus; he consecrated the brothers to the pure heart of St. Joseph; and he consecrated the sisters to the Immaculate...
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    The Little Brothers of Jesus (Latin: Institutum Parvolorum Fratrum Iesu; French: Petits Frères de Jésus; abbreviated PFJ) is a male religious congregation...
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    for the burial of Jesus. Possible locations for the tomb of Jesus include the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Garden Tomb. The Church of the Holy...
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  • The historicity of Jesus is the question of whether Jesus historically existed (as opposed to being a purely mythological figure). The question of historicity...
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    tradition, the True Cross is the cross on which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. It is related by numerous historical accounts and legends that Helena, the mother...
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    The baptism of Jesus, the ritual purification of Jesus with water by John the Baptist, was a major event described in the three synoptic Gospels of the...
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    The circumcision of Jesus is an event from the life of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke chapter 2, which states: And when eight days were fulfilled...
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    congregation of pontifical right for men, founded by Paul of the Cross in 1720, with a special emphasis on and devotion to the Passion of Jesus Christ. A...
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    A chronology of Jesus aims to establish a timeline for the events of the life of Jesus. Scholars have correlated Jewish and Greco-Roman documents and...
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    Jesus (c. 6 to 4 BC – AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher...
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    The Feast of the Holy Cross, or Feast of the Cross, commemorates the cross used in the crucifixion of Jesus. In the Christian liturgical calendar, there...
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    The resurrection of Jesus (Biblical Greek: ἀνάστασις τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, romanized: anástasis toú Iēsoú) is the Christian event that God raised Jesus from the...
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    The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. Matthew starts with...
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    Simon of Cyrene is forced to carry Jesus's cross, while John writes that Jesus carried his cross himself. The Crucifixion of Jesus: Jesus and the two other...
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  • such as the Holy Foreskin of Jesus or the blood of the Oviedo Shroud. The "True Cross" refers to the actual cross used in the Crucifixion of Jesus. Today...
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  • Jesus' bloodlines are distinct from the biblical genealogy of Jesus, which concerns the ancestors of Jesus, and from the documented Brothers of Jesus...
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    is mentioned along with the Jesus' brothers. According to Epiphanius, Origen and Eusebius, these "brothers" would be sons of Joseph from a previous marriage...
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    to the crucifixion of Jesus. In 2006 Larry Hurtado noted that the Early Christians probably saw in the staurogram a depiction of Jesus on the cross, with...
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    The Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Latin: Congregatio Sacrorum Cordium Iesu et Mariae) abbreviated SS.CC., is a Catholic clerical...
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    The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (/ˈdʒɛʒuɪts, ˈdʒɛzju-/ JEZH-oo-its, JEZ-ew-;...
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    ecclesiology, the apostles, particularly the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Twelve Disciples or simply the Twelve), were the primary disciples of Jesus according...
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  • The Little Brothers of Jesus Caritas (Italian: Piccoli Fratelli di Jesus Caritas; abbreviated and stylised jc) are a male religious congregation of the...
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    The Nativity or birth of Jesus Christ is found in the biblical gospels of Matthew and Luke. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in...
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    Kyrēnaios) was the man compelled by the Romans to carry the cross of Jesus of Nazareth as Jesus was taken to his crucifixion, according to all three Synoptic...
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  • The term "historical Jesus" refers to the life and teachings of Jesus as interpreted through critical historical methods, in contrast to what are traditionally...
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  • scholars that Jesus of Nazareth spoke the Aramaic language. Aramaic was the common language of Roman Judaea, and was thus also spoken by Jesus' disciples...
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