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The Three Marys by Alexander Moody Stuart, first published 1862, reprinted by the Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, 1984, is a study of Mary of Magdala, Mary of Bethany and Mary of Nazareth. In Spanish-speaking countries, the Orion's Belt asterism is called Las Tres Marías (The Three Marys).
Mary Magdalene is mentioned by all gospels apart from Luke, who mentions no individual. Mary, mother of James and Joseph/Joses is mentioned by Matthew and Mark. The others are mentioned by one gospel only: Mary, the mother of Jesus; Mary, the mother of the sons of Zebedee; Salome; a sister of Mary, mother of Jesus; Mary of Clopas.
Articles relating to the Three Marys, women mentioned in the canonical gospels' narratives of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, several of whom were, or have been considered by Christian tradition, to have been named Mary (the most common name for Jewish women of the period). The Gospels give the name Mary to several individuals.
In a manner very similar to the Gospel of John, the apocryphal Gospel of Philip (3rd century) also seems to list Mary of Clopas among Jesus' female entourage: . There were three who always walked with the Lord: Mary, his mother, and her sister, and Magdalene, the one who was called his companion.
Mary, mother of James is identified in the synoptic gospels as one of the women who went to Jesus' tomb after he was buried. Mark 16:1 and Luke 24:10 refer to "Mary the mother of James" as one of the Myrrhbearers , the women who went to the tomb of Jesus .
Sheerah – founded three towns. Descendant of Ephraim. I Chronicles [185] Shelomit – mother of blasphemer. Leviticus [186] Shelomit – daughter of Zerubbabel, sister of Meshullam and Hananiah. I Chronicles [187] Shiphrah – one of two midwives who saved the Hebrew boys. Exodus [157]
The three Marys are in the center with the two angels at either side, in the foreground is the Holy Sepulchre with the winding sheet and napkin. In the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches , the Third Sunday of Pascha (i.e. the second Sunday after Easter) is called the 'Sunday of the Myrrhbearers'.
The three main titles for Mary used by the Orthodox are Theotokos (Θεοτόκος or "God-bearer"), Aeiparthenos (ἀειπαρθένος) which means ever-virgin, as confirmed in the Second Council of Constantinople in 553, and Panagia (Παναγία) meaning "all-holy". [25]