St. Joseph - Monterey, CA
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N 36° 35.767 W 121° 53.469
10S E 599182 N 4050642
Located at St. Joseph's Archives and Conference Center.
Waymark Code: WMRM95
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/07/2016
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The statue has St. Joseph over the entrance of St. Joseph's Archives and Conference Center. It depcits Joseph as an older man with white hair and beard, standing and wearing white robes. There is a cross set above the statue.
Wikipedia (
visit link) informs us:
"Joseph ... is a figure in the Gospels, the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus, and is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism[2][3] and Methodism. Christian tradition places Joseph as Jesus' foster father. Some historians state that Joseph was Jesus's father. Some differing views are due to theological interpretations versus historical views.
The Pauline epistles make no reference to Jesus's father; nor does the Gospel of Mark. The first appearance of Joseph is in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Each contains a genealogy of Jesus showing ancestry from king David, but through different sons; Matthew follows the major royal line from Solomon, while Luke traces another line back to Nathan, another son of David and Bathsheba. Consequently, all the names between David and Joseph are different. Some scholars, such as Harry A. Ironside reconcile the genealogies by viewing the Solomonic lineage in Matthew as Joseph's major royal line, and the Nathanic lineage in Luke to be Mary's minor line."