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Mary of Clopas - Sant'Andrea della Zirada Venice. Myrrhbearer. Venerated in. Eastern Orthodox Church. Roman Catholic Church. Feast. May 23 (Orthodoxy) April 24 (Catholicism) The hysteria of Mary of Clopas in Caravaggio 's The Entombment of Christ (1602).
Clopas (Ancient Greek: Κλωπᾶς, Klōpas; Hebrew: possibly חלפי , Ḥalfi; Aramaic: חילפאי, Ḥilfài) is a figure of early Christianity. The name appears in the New Testament, specifically in John 19:25: Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
Feast. 25 September (Roman Catholic) 30 October (Eastern Orthodox) 10 November (Coptic Orthodox) Cleopas ( / ˈkliːoʊpəs /; [1] Greek: Κλεόπας, romanized: Kleopas ), also spelled Cleophas, was a figure of early Christianity, one of the two disciples who encountered Jesus during the Road to Emmaus appearance in Luke 24:13–32 .
At the death of Jesus, we are told that Mary wife of Cleophas/Clopas (Jn 19:25) was present. She was described as the mother of James and Joseph (Mt 27:56) in one account, and mother of James the Less and Joses in another (Mk 15:40). On the other hand, James is described as the son of Alphaeus in the synoptic Gospels' listing of the Apostles ...
Hegesippus identified Clopas as a brother of Saint Joseph. In the Roman Martyrology she is remembered with Saint Salome on April 24. Along with Mary Magdalene and Mary, mother of James, Mary of Clopas is known as one of the Three Marys at the tomb of Jesus. Her relics are said to be both in France at the Church of the Saintes Maries de la Mer.
Clopas was the husband, or possibly the son or father, of one of the women who stood at the foot of the cross when Jesus was crucified . His wife’s name was Mary, and she was distinguished from Mary Magdalene and from Jesus’ mother.
This name, Clopas, is thought by many to be the Greek transliteration of an Aramaic Alphaeus. This view is based on the identification of Mary, the mother of James etc. (Mark, xv, 40) with Mary, the wife of Clopas, and the consequent identity of Alphaeus, father of James (Mark, iii, 18), with Clopas.
