General Notes

Alias:<ALIA> Yoseph /James/
According to SUPPOSED DESCENT OF THE CELTIC KINGS FROM ST. JOSEPH OF
ARIMATHEA:
ST. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA: ANCESTOR OF KINGS?
(http://freespace.virgin.net/david.ford2/joseph.html):
" Early Welsh Genealogies show us that most of the Early British
Monarchies claimed descent in one way or another from Beli Mawr (the
Great) who can be identified with the Celtic God, Belenos.  However, in
his mortal form, Beli was said to have been the husband of Anna, the
daughter of St. Joseph of Arimathea.  At first sight, this claim may seem
quite extraordinary.  St. Joseph was the man who had taken Christ's body
down from the cross and given up his own tomb for Christ's last
resting-place.  Apocryphal legend tells us that Joseph of Arimathea was
the Virgin Mary's paternal uncle.  After the resurrection, he left
Palestine with Saints Philip, Lazarus, Mary Magdalene & others, and
sailed through the Mediterranean to Southern France.  Lazarus & Mary
stayed in Marseilles, while the others travelled north.  At the English
Channel, St. Philip sent Joseph, with twelve disciples, to establish
Christianity in the most far-flung corner of the Roman Empire.  Joseph
had been chosen for such a task, because he knew Britain well already. 
He was a merchant by trade and had conducted business with the Dummonian
tin-miners and Durotrigian lead-miners of Britain many times before. 
Some even say that he sometimes brought his nephew, Jesus, with him on
these trading missions.  Hence the words of Blake's famous humn,
Jerusalem: And did those feet, in ancient time, Walk upon England's
mountains green?"
Some sources report that Joseph of Arimathea was the Virgin Mary's
paternal rather than maternal uncle.