14th century Byzantine Icon of the Descent from the Cross from the Church of Saint Marina in Kalopanagiotis, Cyprus. Saint Joseph of Arimathea is the figure standing in the center, in blue-green robes holding the Body of Christ.
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*joseph of arimathea was, according to all 4 ‘canonical gospels’, the man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of jesus after Jesus’ ‘crucifixion’*
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(“secret disciple of jesus”)
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(a number of stories that developed during the ‘middle ages’ connect him with both ‘glastonbury’, where he is supposed to have founded the earliest ‘christian oratory’, and also with the ‘grail’ legend)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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👈👈👈☜*“FAMOUS JOSEPHS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
*THE FAITHFULLY DEPARTED*
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥