Mary, mother of James
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Mary, mother of James is identified in the synoptic gospels as one of the women who went to Jesus' tomb after he was buried. Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". and Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". refer to "Mary the mother of James" as one of the Myrrhbearers, the women who went to the tomb of Jesus.
Along with Mary Magdalene and Mary of Clopas, Mary the mother of James is known as one of the Three Marys.
Background
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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] For the Anglican theologian J.B. Lightfoot, this fragment quoted above would be spurious.[3][4]
Her relics are said to be both in France at the Church of the Saintes Maries de la Mer, and in Italy.
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