St. Joseph of Arimathea

In England there was an old belief in trees blossoming at Christmas, connected with the well-known legend of St. Joseph of Arimathea.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

Monkish tradition claims, as the founder of Glastonbury Abbey, St. Joseph of Arimathea, who, sixty-three years after the incarnation of our Lord, came to spread the truths of the

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

In a life of St. Joseph of Arimathea, printed in 1520 by Richard Pyerson, a pupil of Caxton, there is, however, an earlier notice of its coming into leaf at Christmas:

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

In the year 63 a.d. St. Joseph of Arimathea with eleven companions was sent to Britain from Gaul by St. Philip the Apostle.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

The legend that the original tree grew from the staff of St. Joseph of Arimathea, which was thrust into the ground and took root, is found before the destruction of the abbey, but the date of its origin cannot now be ascertained.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

East, of which the earliest was that of St. Joseph of Arimathea to our own Glastonbury; he may have preached to the very people who lived here, nay, in this very basilica, which, I think, may have been converted into

Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune 1863

Religious tradition holds that the original tree was planted by St. Joseph of Arimathea

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Religious tradition holds that the original tree was planted by St. Joseph of Arimathea

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Religious tradition holds that the original tree was planted by St. Joseph of Arimathea

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Religious tradition holds that the original tree was planted by St. Joseph of Arimathea

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