Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology, Usuardus, Ado, Ac. By the Greeks on April 8. ] ALOME, the wife of Zebedee, was mother of S. James the Great and S. John the Evangelist It is the opinion of many modem critics that she was the sister of the B. Virgin Mary, to whom reference is made in John xix. 25. The words, however, admit of another and hitherto generally received explanation, according to which they refer to “ Mary, the wife of Cleophas,” immediately after mentioned. There is another theory that she was the daughter of Cleophas or Alphaeus, the brother of Joseph.

It has been ingeniously argued that as both the genealogies in the Gospels are of Joseph, and as Jesus was bom of Mary, and Joseph was not his father, they are wholly irrelevant, Oct. aa.] S. Salome.

unless it be supposed that the same genealogy does for both. And the following table has been constructed — Joses. Mary =f=. Cleophas or I Alpnaeus.

James. Anna == Heli (Joachim). Josephs Jesus Christ Zebedee == Salome. Mary. S. James Joses. Judas or Simeon or I (Matt xviii. x.) the Less. Thaddaeus. Simon. S. James S. John, the Great Evangelist Another theory is that Salome was also called Mary. The only events recorded of Salome are that she preferred a request on behalf of her two sons for seats of honour in the kingdom of heaven (Matt. xx. 20), that she was present at the crucifixion of Jesus (Mark xv. 40), and that she visited the sepulchre (Mark xvi. 1).

It is pretended that Salome came to Italy and settled at Veroli. Her body was found there in 1209, together with that of Mary, the mother of James and John. The two bodies were found in a stone cist, on which was inscribed, “ Maria Mater Joannis Apostoli et Jacobi in ista,” and with the bodies a piece of parchment sewn to the linen which wrapped them round, with the same inscription. That the discovery was a fraud admits of no manner of doubt Information was sent to Pope Innocent III. In the Camargue at the mouth of the Rhone, are venerated the “Three Maries,” /.<?. Mary, the mother of James, and Mary Salome, and Sarah, their servant. These three came to Provence with S. Mary Magdalene and S. 'Martha. They brought away with them from Jerusalem three heads of Holy Innocents who had perished in the massacre of Bethlehem, and also the head of S. James the [Oct. as.

Less. The “ invention ” of the bodies of S. Mary, the mother of James, and S. Salome in the Camargue, took place in 1448, and Pope Nicolas V. instituted a festival of the “ Revelation ” of these precious relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] on December 3rd. The story of the arrival of the female saints in Provence has been already told.1