Saint Joseph - Bel Air, MD
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N 39° 32.393 W 076° 20.847
18S E 384211 N 4377557
A statue of Jospeh at St. Margaret Catholic Church in Bel Air, Maryland.
Waymark Code: WM15DQF
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 12/15/2021
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Photos taken on 12 December 2021. It appears this statue is made out of plaster and is painted white. It is about 3 feet tall. Taken from Wikipedia, "Joseph (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.
The Gospels also name some brothers of Jesus, who may also have been Joseph's sons; the Gospel of James, an apocryphal work of the late 2nd century, theorized these as the sons of Joseph from an earlier marriage. This position is still held in the Orthodox churches, but the Western church holds to Jerome's argument that both Joseph and Mary must have been lifelong virgins and that the "brothers" must have been his cousins. Perspectives on Joseph as a historical figure are distinguished from a theological reading of the Gospel texts."
Associated Religion(s): Christianity
Statue Location: St. Margaret Catholic Church
Entrance Fee: 0
Artist: Not listed
Website: Not listed
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