Goffredo Malaterra
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Gaufredo Malaterra was an eleventh-century Benedictine monk and historian, possibly of Norman origin. He travelled to the southern Italian peninsula, passing some time in Apulia before entering the mo
Duke Roger at the Battle of Cerami (1063). Geoffrey came to Sicily following its conquest by Roger and his older brother, Robert Guiscard.
Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary is an episode in the life of Jesus in the New Testament which is only recounted in Luke's Gospel, where it appears immediately after the Parable of the Good Samari
Goffredo Malaterra
…Sicily. Malaterra indicates that, prior to his arrival in Catania, he had spent an undefined period away from monastic life, in the worldly service of "Martha". Little is known of Geoffrey before he became a monk in Sicily. He writes in the dedication of his history that he previously served the clergy in…
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary by Tintoretto, 1570s
Georg Friedrich Stettner: Christ at the home of Martha and Mary
Martha and Mary illustration from the Women of the Bible, Harold Copping
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary by Jan Brueghel the Younger and Peter Paul Rubens, 1628