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Works Biblical apocrypha Historia Iosephi fabri lignarii The History of Joseph the Carpenter

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Now when righteous Joseph became a widower, my mother Mary, blessed, holy, and pure, was already twelve years old. For her parents offered her in the temple when she was three years of age, and she remained in the temple of the Lord nine years. Then when the priests saw that the virgin, holy and God-fearing, was growing up, they spoke to each other, saying: Let us search out a man, righteous and pious, to whom Mary may be entrusted until the time of her marriage; lest, if she remain in the temple, it happen to her as is wont to happen to women, and lest on that account we sin, and God be angry with us.

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The History of Joseph the Carpenter
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Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament

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Faculty of Theology, Patristics and History of the Early Church
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