Johanna of Kerioth
This Judean woman from Kerioth, once betrothed to Judas, dies of grief at the time of the breakup.
"When Joanne died – and thank Good no one said it, I know she died of grief when, after having waited her entire youth, Judas told her that he did not want to marry, while it was known that in Jerusalem he had sent friends to ask for his daughter from a rich woman who owned trading posts as far as Cyprus."[1]
This outcome from Ramah (Judea) caused the rupture between two friends, her mother Anne and Judas’s mother, Mary. Jesus healed Joanne’s mother and reconciled the two women. Anne’s support would prove indispensable during the terrible trial endured by the mother of the deicide when she learned of her son’s betrayal and the Passion of the Christ.[2]
Her name
Johanna, feminine of YoHanan, "the Eternal has done Grace, has been gracious".
Where is she mentioned in the work?
GRM 214 GRM 632
Notes and references
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