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2 unusual facts about Gospel of James


Bartolini Salimbeni Chapel

Lorenzo Monaco's frescoes were inspired by the apocryphal Gospel of James, dealing with Mary's infancy and supporting the Vallumbrosan's view that she had been not naturally born by her father.

Presentation of Mary

The feast is associated with an event recounted not in the New Testament, but in the apocryphal Infancy Narrative of James.



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