Martha
Mentioned only in Luke 10:38-42;
From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913, “St. Martha”
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Patronages
According to Catholic tradition, as recorded in the sources cited for each patronage:
Cadiz
Recorded as patron of Cadiz in:
- Husenbeth, Emblems of Saints, 1882, PATRONS OF COUNTRIES AND CITIES.
Cooks
Recorded as patron of cooks in:
- Drake, Saints and Their Emblems, 1916, PATRONS OF ARTS, TRADES AND PROFESSIONS
Housewives
Recorded as patron of housewives in:
- Drake, Saints and Their Emblems, 1916, PATRONS OF ARTS, TRADES AND PROFESSIONS
Feast day
- July 29 · General Roman Calendar
From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913, “St. Martha”
and John 11, 12, sqq.
The Aramaic form occurs in a Nabatfan inscription found at Puteoli, and now in the Naples Museum;
it is dated A.D. 5 (Corpus Inscr. Semit., 158);
also in a Palmyrene inscription, where the Greek translation has the form Marthein , A.D. 179.
Mary, Martha, and Lazarus are represented by St. John as living at Bethania, but St. Luke would seem to imply that they were, at least at one time, living in Galilee;
he does not mention the name of the town, but it may have been Magdala, and we should thus, supposing Mary of Bethania and Mary Magdalene to be the same person, understand the appellative "Magdalene".
The words of St. John (11:1) seem to imply a change of residence for the family.
It is possible, too, that St. Luke has displaced the incident referred to in Chapter 10.
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