A member of the Sanhedrin who was a secret disciple of Jesus, St. Joseph, according to all four gospels, took the body of Christ from the cross and entombed it in a new sepulchre that he had bought for his own burial. Many legends associate Joseph, who is thought to have been a tin merchant, with England: some say that St. Philip sent him and twelve missionaries to evangelize the country. Others tell of Joseph's inheritance of the Holy Grail, which was/is at Glastonbury Abbey, the reputed site of his death.

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  • Cabaniss, Allen. "Joseph of Arimathea and a Chalice." Liturgy and Literature: Selected Essays. (1970). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1970.
  • Carter, Henry Hare. The Portuguese Book of Joseph of Arimathea. (1967). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967.
  • Catholic Apostolic Church. The divine liturgy for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist according to the Glastonbury rite, commonly called the liturgy of Saint Joseph of Arimathea. 6th edition. (1979). Glastonbury: Metropolitical Press, 1979.
  • Here Begynneth the lyfe of Joseph of Arimathea. (1520). London: Richard Pynson, 1520.
  • The history of that holy disciple Joseph of Arimathea. (1770). London: [n.p.], 1770.
  • Hoffman, Donald L. "A Grave Event: Henry V, Glastonbury Abbey, and Joseph of Arimathea's Bones." In Shichtman, Martin B., James P Carley, and Valerie Marie Lagorio, eds. Culture and the King: Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend: Essays in Honor of Valerie M. Lagorio. (1994). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.
  • The holy disciple: or, the history of Joseph of Arimathea. (1777). Glasgow: J. J. Robertson, 1777.
  • Loomis, Roger Sherman. .Joseph of Arimathea, an Evangelist by Error.. In The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol. (1963/1991). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
  • ---. .Joseph of Arimathea and Glastonbury.. In The Development of Arthurian Romance. (1963). London: Hutchinson, 1963.
  • Robinson, J. Armitage. Two Glastonbury Legends: King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathea. (1926). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1926.
  • Treharne, R. F. The Glastonbury Legends: Joseph of Arimathea, the Holy Grail, and King Arthur. (1967). London: Cresset Press, 1967.

• Images:
  • Icon (with troparion and Bishop) ---The Autonomous Antiochian Archdiocese of North America
  • Icon ---NNDB
  • Icon of St. Joseph with the Holy Grail by a Monk of the Brotherhood of St. Seraphim of Sarov ---Full Homely Divinity

• Literature:
  • De Boron, Robert. Joseph d'Arimathie. Richard O'Gorman, ed. (1995). Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies, 1995.
  • De Boron, Robert. Merlin and the Grail: Joseph of Arimathea, Merlin, Perceval: The Trilogy of Prose Romances Attributed to Robert de Boron. ed. by Nigel Bryant. (2001). Woodbridge UK and Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2001.
  • Lawton, David A., ed. Joseph of Arimathea: A Critical Edition. (1983). New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1983.
  • Peitsch, Karl, ed. Spanish Grail Fragments: El Libro de Josep Abarimatia, La Estoria de Merlin, Lançarote (1924). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1924.
  • Ponceau, Jean-Paul, ed. L.Estoire del Saint Graal. (1997). Paris: H. Champion, 1997.
  • Skeat, Walter W, ed. Joseph of Arimathie: otherwise called The romance of the Seint Graal, or Holy Grail: an alliterative poem written about A.D. 1350. Early English Text Society. (1871). London: N. Trübner & Co., 1871.

• Novels:
  • Boardman, William. Sun and Wind: A Legend of Joseph of Arimathea. (2007). New York: Scepter Books, 2007.
  • Davis, Lovesta Dorwin. Arimathea.s Gift. (1947). Columbus, OH: The Wartburg Press, 1947.
  • Maiden, Cecil . Man Before Morning. (1977). Chappaqua, N.Y. : Christian Herald Books, 1977.
  • Ripley, Alexandra. A Love Divine. (1996). New York: Warner Books, 1996.
  • Ruck, Richard. The Story of Joseph of Arimathea. Trans. Thomas Rowland Hughes. (1961). Llandysul : Gomerian Press, 1961.
  • Steedman, Marguerite. Refuge in Avalon. (1962). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.

• Drama:
  • Hatton, Thomas. Joseph of Arimathea : an Easter play. (1979). Lima, OH: C. S. S. Publishing Co., 1979.
  • Percy, Edward. Joseph of Arimathæa; a romantic morality in four scenes. (1920). London: Burns, Oates, and Washbourn, Ltd., 1920.
  • Trarieaux, Gabriel. Les vaincus, Joseph d'Arimath&eacutre;e. (1903). Paris: Cahiers de la Quinzaine, 1903.
  • Wilson, Dorothy Clarke. Joseph of Arimathea : an Easter play. (1932). Boston: Walter H. Baker, 1932.
• Music:
  • The Noble Joseph Serbian Chant. (PDF, English) ---Anthology of Serbian Chant
  • Troparia of the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women (PDF, English) Obihod ---OCA
  • Apolytikia of the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women (PDF, Greek and English) Byzantine Chant ---New Byzantium Publications
  • Troparia of the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women (PDF, English) Byzantine Chant ---St. Anthony Monastery, Florence, AZ

  • Bush, Geoffrey. .Joseph of Arimathea : SATB and piano (or organ). (1985).
  • Fromings, Kevin and Matthew Dyboski. .Shadows: the life of Joseph of Arimathea.. (1992).
  • Gillette, James Robert. .Joseph of Arimathea; Easter cantata for choir and narrator.. (1963).

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