Ananias of Kerioth
Parent of Mary of Kerioth, mother of Judas. He will also bear the dishonor and condemnation of Judas' betrayal.
Disturbed, he is indeed the one who comes to announce to Mary of Kerioth the betrayal of her son:“Your son has betrayed the Master and delivered him to his Enemies! He betrayed him with a Kiss and I saw the Master struck and spattered with spittle, scourged, crowned with thorns, burdened with the cross, crucified and dead through your son. And our name, the Master's Enemies, shout it insolently in triumph and they tell of the Actions of your son who, for less than the price of a lamb, sold the Messiah and, betraying him with a Kiss, pointed him out to the guards.”[1]
Character and Appearance
A little old man.
Apostolic Journey
He has the joy that the Resurrected Jesus appears to him and consoles him[2]:"Jesus goes to him. He touches his head saying the same words already said to Mary of Simon[3]: 'Parents who have fulfilled their duties should not consider themselves responsible for the sin of their child. Take courage, man! God is just. Peace to you and to this house. I have come and you will go where I send you. For the next Passover the Disciples will be in Bethany. You will go to them and tell them that on the twelfth day after his death you saw the Lord in Kerioth, living and true in his Flesh and his Soul and his Divinity. They will believe you because I have already been with them a lot. (...)'"Jesus entrusts him with testifying to the Disciples and to the residents of Kerioth who are guilty of hardness of Heart towards Judas' mother, following her son's betrayal of Jesus and his suicide:
"...And even before that, you will go today to Kerioth to ask the head of the synagogue to gather the people, and you will say in the presence of everyone that I have come here, and that they remember my words from God.[4] They will surely say to you: “Why did he not come to us?”
You will answer thus: “The Lord told me to tell you that if you had done what he told you to do for the innocent mother, he would have shown himself. You have failed in love and that is why the Lord did not show himself."
His Name
Greek form of the name Hananya, The Eternal One has been merciful.
Where is he mentioned in the work?
GRM 367 GRM 368 GRM 632
Notes and references
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