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  • He is also Josaphat, that is, ` judging, 'for, "The Father hath committed all judgment unto the Son."

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842

  • Barlaam and Josaphat which is the Christian adaptation of the Buddha legend, the Faust-legend of Cyprian of Antioch, and the romance of the heroine who, under the various names of Pelagia, Marina, Eugenia,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • "The postman, Josaphat … Another alcoholic … He's called Josaphat because when his wife died he had more to drink than usual and kept on saying through his tears:

    Maigret's Rival Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1944

  • Detroit's St. Josaphat Parish and Windsor's Assumption Parish provided the servers as well as choir.

    Solemn Mass at the Shrine of the Little Flower 2009

  • * Polling booths at the Dal Josaphat sports ground in Paarl were espec busy and the queue of several hundred people hardly shortened since polls opened at 7am.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Josaphat sports stadium was devoted to praise for National Party cabinet members who had initiated talks between the then-banned ANC and the South African Government.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Both Barlaam and Josaphat were venerated for a time as saints in the Catholic Church.

    BUDDHISM HAJIME NAKAMURA 1968

  • “Barlaam” is a corruption of the Sanskrit word bhagavān, an epithet for Buddha, and “Josaphat” derives from the Sanskrit word bodhisattva.

    BUDDHISM HAJIME NAKAMURA 1968

  • As soon as they reached the outlying gardens and palaces, they skirted the town, turning east through part of the valley of Josaphat, leaving the Mount of Olives and the road to Bethany on their left, and entered the city by the Sheep

    The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

  • Joachim and Anna now came to a kind of bay at the outermost edge of the Temple hill, overlooking the valley of Josaphat, where the path could no longer go straight on but branched to right and left.

    The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

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