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 | | This view is based on the identification of Mary, the mother of James etc. (Mark, xv, 40) with Mary, the wife of Clopas, and the consequent identity of Alphaeus, father of James (Mark, iii, 18), with Clopas. |
 | | If "wife" is rightly inserted, then Mary was the mother of James the Less, and Clopas is the same as the Alphaeus of Matthew 10:3 and 27:56. |
 | | The Roman Catholic Church recognizes a Saint Mary of Cleophas or Clopas; thus the question of whether or not this Mary, mother of a James, is a phantom duplication of Mary the mother of James the brother of Jesus, may not be asked by good Catholics. |
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