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[Rebelbase]

Great Granny Jesus just doesn’t sound right...

[ApplegateRanch]

Saint Ismeria is a new one on me; I had never heard of her before.

Nice read, and interesting scholarship regarding a Florentine LEGEND; but the headline is another typical bait & switch. Wouldn’t surprise me if Catherine Lawless was apalled at how this article about her work was titled.

The headline, “Jesus’ Great-Grandmother Identified” is an emphatic statement of Biblical historical discovery.

The subtitle, “Medieval legends suggest that Ismeria, a descendent of the tribe of King David, was the grandmother of the Virgin Mary,” is a ‘maybe’ based upon a Medieval legend that most likely has no more basis in historical fact than the legends of the Questing Beast, or Spencer’s Blatant Beast.