Saint Joseph
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According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.
Saint Joseph with the Infant Jesus by Guido Reni, c. 1635
Presentation at the Temple (detail), Byzantine, Panagia Amasgou, Monagri, Cyprus
Christ in the House of his Parents, 1850, by John Everett Millais
Joseph the Carpenter, by Georges de La Tour, c. 1645
Genealogy of Jesus
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The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. Matthew starts with Abraham and works forwards, while Luke works back
Ancestors of Christ by Armenian manuscript illuminator Toros Roslin
South dome of inner narthex at Chora Church, Istanbul, depicting the ancestors of Christ from Adam onwards
Patrilineage in Matthew was traditionally illustrated by a Tree of Jesse showing the descent of Jesus from Jesse, father of King David.
Tree of Jesse illustration based on the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century)