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Holy Family

noun

  1. a representation in art of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus.


Holy Family

noun

  1. the Holy Family
    Christianity the infant Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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For centuries, student artists copied plaster casts and worked up variations on images of the Holy Family.

By far the greater part of the human race at any time has been poor, as poor as the Holy Family.

And then he is confronted with the picture of the Holy Family which can never have lived much beyond the poverty line.

These watchers belonged to the Association of the Holy Family.

And it happened that when the Holy Family had travelled some distance, they came to a field where a man was sowing wheat.

The journey of the Holy Family to Egypt, being about four hundred miles, must have occupied five or six weeks.

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