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 has handed Him over to His enemies! He betrayed Him with a kiss. And I have seen the Master beaten, covered with spittle, scourged, crowned with thorns, laden with a cross, crucified and dead through the action of your son. And our name is shouted with obscene triumph by the enemies of the Master, and they relate the feats of your son, who, for less than the price that a lamb costs, has sold the Messiah and with the betrayal of a kiss has 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:"Jesus goes to him. He touches his head, repeating the same words as He said to Mary of Simon:[2] 'Relatives who have done their duty must not consider themselves responsible for the sin of a relative. Take heart, man! God is just. Peace to you and to this house. I have come and you will go where I send you. For the supplementary Passover the disciples will be at Bethany. You will go to them and you will tell them that on the twelfth day from His death, you saw the Lord at Kerioth, alive and true, in Body and Soul and Divinity. They will believe you, because I have already been with them quite a lot. [...]'"[3]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 before that, this very day, you will go to Kerioth to ask the leader of the synagogue to gather the people together, and in the presence of everybody you will say that I came here, and that they are to remember My words of the farewell.[4] They will certainly say to you: “Why did He not come to us?” You will reply so: “The Lord told me to say to you that, if you had done what He told you to do to the innocent mother, He would have shown Himself. You failed in your duty of love, and that is why the Lord has not shown Himself.'"[3]
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