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The Presentation of Jesus is an early episode in the life of Jesus Christ, describing his presentation at the Temple in Jerusalem. It is celebrated by many churches 40 days after Christmas on Candlemas, or the "Feast of the Presentation of Jesus". The episode is described in chapter 2 of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament. [1]
The virgin birth of Jesus is the Christian and Islamic doctrine that Jesus was conceived by his mother, Mary, through the power of the Holy Spirit and without sexual intercourse. [1] Christians regard the doctrine as an explanation of the mixture of the human and divine natures of Jesus. [2] [1] The Eastern Orthodox Churches accept the doctrine ...
Society of Jesus. 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-; [2] Latin: Iesuitae ), [3] is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Jesus or birth of Christ is documented in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Judaea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth ...
Josephologyof the Catholic Church. Saint Joseph (c. 1640) by Guido Reni. Joseph ( Hebrew: יוסף, romanized : Yosef; Greek: Ἰωσήφ, romanized : Ioséph) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.
Anointing of Jesus. Mary Magdalene is traditionally depicted with a vessel of ointment, in reference to the Anointing of Jesus. The anointings of Jesus ’s head or feet are events recorded in the four gospels. The account in Matthew 26, Mark 14, takes place on Holy Wednesday, while the account in John 12 takes place 6 days before Passover at ...
In The Miracles of Jesus, H. Van der Loos describes two main categories of miracles attributed to Jesus: those that affected people (such as Jesus healing the blind man of Bethsaida ), or "healings", and those that "controlled nature" (such as Jesus walking on water ). The three types of healings are cures, in which an ailment is miraculously ...
