Alphaeus of Meroba
This young child from Capernaum has a sad life: orphaned by his father Jacob, he is rejected and beaten, like his two brothers, by Merobah, their remarried mother.
The Virgin Mary, moved by pity, asks Meroba to entrust the child to her:"But take him! Take him! If only you could take the other two! But I don't know where they are..." exclaims the mother.[1]Alpheus gradually regains his equilibrium through contact with the women disciples, then Jesus puts him under the protection of Sara of Afeca*, a childless rich widow, who comes to live in Capernaum for this purpose.[2]
His name
Alpheus (Halphai) means "ephemeral".
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Other unfortunate children:
Benjamin, the pastoureau of Enon. His abusive great-uncle exploits him with indignity. Delivered by Jesus, he becomes one of the seventy-two disciples.
Marie and Mathias, starving orphans and hunted. They are adopted by Chouza and Jeanne, his wife.
Martial, the bastard son of a Roman. He is killed in defiance of Christ.
Ruben, Elisha and Isaac, three Samaritan orphans rescued from bandits and returned to their families.
Scialem, the deformed child of a sanhedrist who comes to ask Jesus for death.