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Santa Juana de Cuza

Saint Joanna, the Myrrh-bearer

 

Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady on Thorns (Aranzazu)

Municipality of San Mateo

Province of Rizal

Philippines

 

Grand Lenten Exhibit

Hermandad de la Sagrada Pasion

Harisson Plaza Annex

Malate, Manila

Philippines

 

February 08 to 17, 2008

 

Special thanks to:

Atty. Oliver Magtanong

Francis Santos

Jomai Josef

Kuya Puti dela Paz

 

 

About SAINT JOANNA

 

Venerated in:

Roman Catholicism

*Especially venerated by the Jesuits

Orthodox and Eastern Christianity

Lutheran

Anglicanism

 

Canonized: Pre-Congregation

 

Feast:

Roman Catholic: May 24

Lutheran: August 03

Orthodox: June 27

Eastern Catholic: 3rd Sunday of Pascha

 

Symbol: Lamb, Ointment box

 

Derivatives: St. Jessica, St. Jennifer.

 

Joanna was one of the women associated with the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, often considered to be one of the disciples. In the Bible, she is one of the women recorded in the Gospel of Luke as accompanying Jesus and the twelve: "Mary, called Magdalene, ... and Joanna the wife of Herod's steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their resources" (Luke 8:2-3).

 

Joanna is also among the women who went to prepare Jesus' body in Luke's account of the Resurrection, and who later told the apostles and other disciples about the empty tomb and words of the "two men in dazzling clothes".

 

It is said that she has given the head of St. John the Baptist an honorable burial.

 

Both Richard J. Bauckham and Ben Witherington III conclude that the disciple Joanna is the same woman as the Christian Junia mentioned by Paul in his Epistle to the Romans (Romans 16:7).

 

She is honoured as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church on the "Sunday of the Myrrhbearers", which is two Sundays after Pascha (Easter), and in the Roman Catholic Church on May 24. She is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod on August 3 together with Mary, the Mother of James and Salome.

 

Joanna in Literature: Joanna was a secondary character in Margaret George’s 2002 novel Mary, Called Magdalene. In the novel, Joanna, cast from Herod’s household by Chuza for being possessed, is healed by Jesus in Capernaum. She then joins the other disciples. She is the second woman, after Mary, and becomes her friend.

 

Joanna is the main character in Mary Rourke's 2006 novel Two Women of Galilee. In Rourke's telling, Joanna is the daughter of a family that had become Hellenized and ceased to practice Judaism as they obtained a privileged position in the court of Herod. Mary is Joanna's long-lost cousin from a branch of the family that was still observant. When they meet they become close friends. Joanna meets Jesus through her friendship with Mary and he heals her of tuberculosis. The story centers on the friendship of Joanna and Mary, retelling events from the Gospel from the women's point of view.

 

 

 

Reference:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joanna

www.illuminatedink.com/saint_symbols/

saints.sqpn.com/saintj2l.htm

 

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