A 14th century Byzantine icon, depicting Christ's descent from the cross from the Church of Saint Marina in Kalopanagiotis, Cyprus, is shown here. Joseph of Arimathea is depicted at center, above ...

Residents of Glastonbury town are bracing themselves for the annual confusion that leads some festival-goers to mistakenly arrive in their quaint locale. The town finds humour in the sight of ...

Joseph’s activity in terms of plural marriage is very uncomfortable material. He pursues it so assiduously — in my opinion, recklessly — in ways that were very hurtful to Emma Smith.

Due to this high-ranking position, Nicodemus, like Joseph of Arimathea, was prominent, influential, and wealthy. Nicodemus’ notoriety among the Jews in Jerusalem was the reason he visited Jesus ...

In this Holy Year of hope, the Way of the Cross is also a precious school of this Christian virtue, though, for example, the figure of Joseph of Arimathea, who asked Pilate for the body of Jesus ...

Joseph Beuys also expressed his awareness of the Nazis' destructive rage in his artistic actions. In 1942, Hitler's army razed the town of Lidice, located 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) west of Prague ...

14th century Byzantine Icon of the "Descent from the Cross" from the Church of Saint Marina in Kalopanagiotis, Cyprus. St. Joseph of Arimathea is the figure standing in the center, in blue-green robes ...

In The Beginning At the time of the census Mary and Joseph journeyed to the home of Joseph of Arimathea near Bethlehem; as it happened he was travelling home from a business trip in Caesarea when ...

Each year, students take part in a Joseph of Arimathea Mass, providing a funeral service for unclaimed individuals in the community. This year, 28 people whose cremated remains were never claimed ...

Luke 23:50-53 After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus.

They give a crucial new impetus to the story of the Grail by establishing a provenance for the sacred vessel - and for the Round Table itself - in the Biblical past; and through the controlling figure ...

Or around Glastonbury Tor, the mysterious hill in southern England where, medieval legend declared, Joseph of Arimathea brought the Grail shortly after Jesus’ death.