In the Late Middle Ages, legend held...
that Anne was married three times:
first to Joachim, then to Clopas and finally to a man named Solomas...
and that each marriage produced one daughter:
Mary, mother of Jesus...
Mary of Clopas...
and Mary Salome, respectively.
All of the people gathered together in this painting...
The Holy Kinship of Geerten tot St. Jans...
are relatives of Christ.
Saint Anne, the Virgin’s mother, is seated at bottom left.
To the right of her is Mary with the Christ Child on her lap.
Their husbands Saints Joachim en Joseph stand behind them.
On the right are Saint Elisabeth, the Virgin’s cousin...
with her son John the Baptist.
Mary Cleophas (in profile).
With Mary Salome standing behind Elizabeth.
The three boys in the middle of the church can be identified from their attributes as Simon Zelotes with the saw, St John the Evangelist with the chalice, and James the Greater with the tiny barrel of wine.
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