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Joseph [New Testament Biblical figure], Saint ( - 1st century)

Husband of Mary and foster-father of Jesus Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08504a.htm Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Relationships: Jesus Christ (c. 5 BC-c. 30 AD) was a son of Joseph [New Testament Biblical figure]
Mary Mother of Jesus [Biblical figure] (1st c CE-) was a wife of Joseph [New Testament Biblical figure]
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Geschichte der Deutschen in England von den ersten germanischen ansiedlungen in Britannien bis zum ende des 18. jahrhunderts..
 References in Documents:
MS Book of the dean of Christ Church (MacGregor, ed.) 312 Lapis (ut videtur) scissilis oblongus coloris subnigri, nominibus sacris Jesu, Mariæ, Josephi inscriptus, quod artificio (vereor) non naturaliter factum: cujusmodi apud Germanos Gamahujæ dicuntur. 309 Elongated darkish laminar stone, inscribed with the names of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, which (I fear) were made artificially and not by nature. Stones of this kind are called Gamahe among the Germans. MacGregor 1983, no. 189.
MS Book of the dean of Christ Church (MacGregor, ed.) 416 Anulus e tali succino, in cujus parte sigillari eadem imago Christi; et sacra nomina S.ti Josephi et Mariæ, cum crucifixionis instrumentis, in circulo. Fr. Lege fractus. Ring, made of this kind of amber; the seal shows the same image of Christ and the holy names of St Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary, together with the instruments of the Passion arranged in a circle For 'fr.' read broken.
MS Book of the dean of Christ Church (MacGregor, ed.) 494 Christi Nativitas, cum S.to Josepho, B. Mariâ, Angelo et pastoribus in pruni ossiculo faberrimè sculpta. 465 The Birth of Christ, with St Joseph, the Blessed Virgin Mary, an angel and shepherds, skilfully carved on a plum-stone.
[Travel Diary of Georg Christoph Stirn of Nuremberg, includes description of the Tradescant collection, as well as those in the tower and at Oxford] In the museum itself we saw a salamander, a chameleon, a pelican, a remora, a lanhado[*]Mus. Trad. p. 6: lanhado is mentioned amongst snakes. from Africa, a white partridge, a goose which has grown in Scotland on a tree,[*]On the so-called Barnacle Goose cf. M. Müller, Science of Lang. II p. 585 foll. a flying squirrel, another squirrel like a fish, all kinds of bright coloured birds from India, a number of things changed into stone, amongst others a piece of human flesh on a bone, gourds, olives, a piece of wood, an ape's head, a cheese etc; all kinds of shells, the hand of a mermaid, the hand of a mummy, a very natural wax hand under glass, all kinds of precious stones, coins, a picture wrought in feathers, a small piece of wood from the cross of Christ, pictures in perspective of Henry IV and Louis XIII of France, who are shown, as in nature, on a polished steel mirror, when this is held against the middle of the picture, a little box in which a landscape is seen in perspective, pictures from the church of S. Sophia in Constantinople copied by a Jew into a book, two cups of 'rinocerode' (the horn of the quadruped, or the beak of the hornbill?[*]P. B. Duncan, Introd. to the Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum p. 4, mentions as deserving especial notice 'the beak of the helmet hornbill, from the East Indies, which has been but lately imported in the entire state, having been long suspected to have been a foolish imposition contrived to deceive Tradescant.' The younger Tradescant bequeathed the Museum in 1662 to Ashmole who presented it to the University of Oxford.), a cup of an East Indian alcedo which is a kind of unicorn,[*]The Mus. Trad. does not give Alcedo, but it mentions (p. 53) Albado horn together with Unicorn horn and Rinoceros horn. many Turkish and other foreign shoes and boots, a sea parrot, a toad-fish, an elk's hoof with three claws, a bat as large as a pigeon, a human bone weighing 42 pounds, Indian arrows, an elephant's head, a tiger's head, poisoned arrows such as are used by the executioners in the West Indies — when a man is condemned to death, they lay open his back with them and he dies of it — an instrument used by the Jews in circumcision (with picture) some very light wood from Africa, the robe of the king of Virginia, a few goblets of agate, a girdle such as the Turks wear in Jerusalem, [a representation of] the passion of Christ carved very daintily on a plumstone, a large magnet stone, [a figure of] S. Francis in wax under glass as also of S. Jerome, the Pater Noster of Pope Gregory XV, pipes from the East and West Indies, a stone found in the West Indies in the water, whereon were graven Jesus, Mary and Joseph, a beautiful present from the Duke of Buckingham, which was of gold and diamonds affixed to a feather by which the four elements were signified, Isidor's MS. of de natura hominis, a scourge with which Charles V. is said to have scourged himself, a hat band of snake bones.
Musaeum Tradescantianum (1656) A Gamaha with Jesus, Joseph & Mary, in Italian capitall letters.