Nazareth

Nazareth.

The town of the holy Family.

Inhabitants or natives

Genealogical tree of Jesus.

Jesus and his Family

Jesus, the Virgin Mary, his mother, Saint Joseph, his foster father, Anne and Joachim, his maternal grandparents, Alphaeus of Jacob, Jesus' uncle, his uncle, Alphaeus of Simon, nephew of Jesus, his nephew.

His cousins

James son of Alphaeus, the apostle, Joseph of Alphaeus, Jude son of Alphaeus (Thaddeus), the apostle, Simon of Alphaeus.

The inhabitants

Alphaeus of Sarah, Asa the donkey driver, Ishmael the donkey driver, Benjamin, Eliakim, Esther and Samuel the unworthy son, Simeon, Levi the synagogue leader.

Description

The house of the holy Family

"Here is your house, Mary," said Joseph pointing with the whip to a small house located exactly at the bottom of a hill undulation and which has, behind it, a good and vast garden full of flowers ending with a very small olive tree. Further on, the usual hedge of hawthorn and cactus marks the boundary of the property. The fields, formerly Joachim's, are farther away.

"Little remains to you," said Zechariah. "Your father's illness was long and costly. Costly too were the expenses for repairs, the damages caused by Rome. You see, the road destroyed the three main outbuildings and the house was reduced. To enlarge it without heavy expenses, part of the hill that forms a cave was used. Joachim kept provisions there and Anne her tools. You will do what seems best to you."

… And Joseph shows her his work: "You see, here I made this hole to collect rain Water, because these vines always thirst. I cut the oldest branches of this olive tree to revitalize it. I planted these apple trees because two were dead, and there I put fig trees. When they grow, they will protect the house from too strong sun and curious eyes. There is the old arbor, I only changed the rotten supports and worked with the cisWaterx. It will give a lot of grapes, I hope. And here, look," and proudly, he leads her to the slope behind the house that forms the orchard boundary, "and there I dug a small cave and supported it, and when these small plants grow, it will be about as large as the one you had. The spring is no longer there... but I hope to bring a trickle of Water. I will work during the long summer evenings when I come to see you..."

"When coming from Sephoris, one enters Nazareth from the northwestern side, that is, by the highest and most rocky. The amphitheater, on which Nazareth stretches in terraces, appears entirely when one reaches the crest of the last hill coming from Sephoris, which descends rather quickly through ravines to the small town. The place where Jesus is located is the exact point where his fellow citizens tried to stone him and where he stopped them by his power to pass through them."

"A stone seat is Against the house."

Jesus himself describes Galilee and his town: . (Learn more about this place)

Notable events

The Annunciation to Mary (divine conception of Jesus).

The unbelief of the Nazarenes turns into hostility during the Passion:

"Oh! no. Many, even from Nazareth, insulted him. It is well known. What a shame!"

Its name

תנצר (Nasareth). ; Nazareth (Naşèrèt) can mean "verdant" or "guardian" - Other names: Nazara, Nasirah, En Nasira, Japhia, Mash-had, en-Nasirah, Nazerat, Nazareth of(in) Galilee, Yafti en Nasra.

Where is it mentioned in the work?

EMV 2 EMV 4 EMV 5 EMV 7 EMV 14 EMV 16 EMV 18 EMV 19 EMV 26 EMV 27 EMV 31 EMV 37 EMV 38 EMV 39 EMV 39 EMV 42 EMV 44 EMV 57 EMV 89 EMV 93
EMV 100 EMV 101 EMV 105 EMV 106 EMV 150 EMV 156
EMV 264
EMV 303 EMV 312 EMV 313 EMV 336
EMV 433 EMV 434 EMV 435 EMV 436 EMV 437 EMV 439 EMV 440 EMV 442 EMV 478
EMV 562 EMV 566 EMV 596 EMV 599
EMV 632

Learn more about this place

Sanctuary of the Holy House at Loreto.

Notebooks of 1943 : Relics given by Heaven :

"Jesus said: Can you say that I have not loved this land (Italy) where I brought the Relics of my life and my death: the house of Nazareth where I was conceived in an embrace of luminous ardor between the divine Spirit and the Virgin, and the Shroud on which the sweat of my death has imprinted the mark of my pain suffered for humanity?"

Cave in the Basilica of the Annunciation at Nazareth.

According to Maria Valtorta, these two Relics would therefore be authenticated. For the House of Nazareth, it concerns the translation of this house at Loreto (Loreto) in Italy in the 13th century. The site mariedeNazareth.com clarifies this point: it is the transfer by sea route from Palestine to Italy, by the Angeli Family, of the house of Nazareth during the conversion of the Nazarenes to Islam. The importance of the event and the similarity of "Angéli" with the Angels, gave rise to a legendary narrative.

Excerpt from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel Salton Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère:

The village of the Holy Family

The village in which Jesus lived thirty years of his earthly life is, of course, mentioned by The Evangelists and in the Acts of the Apostles. It is also very present in the text of Maria Valtorta. From the first chapters she gives a brief overview. “The small town, white among the greenery, which rises and falls following the slopes on which it is built. The terrain undulates gently. Here, it is barely visible, there more pronounced”.

Then, it is Jesus Himself who praises the charms of his village to his new disciple Simon the Zealot (Apostle): “And my city of Nazareth! It offers itself to the kiss of the sun, all white and green, laughing, between the two giants of the great and small Hermon, and the pedestal of the mountains that support the Tabor, gentle all green slopes that raise opposite the sun their Tabor which is often snowy but so good when the sun envelops the summit. It then becomes alabaster tinted pink, while opposite Carmel has lapis lazuli at certain hours of bright sun (...) And then, down south, the fertile and flowery carpet of the Esdraelon Plain ”.

Although not mentioned in the Old Testament, Nazareth was not really an “insignificant village”, as it is established by recent studies that Jesus’ village extended over four or five hectares and had about forty households. Its population is estimated, at the time of Jesus, at approximately 400 inhabitants. Nazareth was essentially an agricultural village.

Gallery

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  The house of Mary, Nazareth, in 2022.

• Nazareth - Sous la basilique de l'Annunciation.webp

  Under the Basilica of the Annunciation, Nazareth, in 2022

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• 32° 42’ 07’’ N / 35° 18’ 12’’ E

• +370m/410m

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Notes and references

Article partly written from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel Salton Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère.