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The Holy Family
The tradition of depicting the Holy Family or Mary, Jesus and St John the Baptist is more popular in Roman Catholic art and Italian painting in particular. The subject comes from the apocryphal story of the Pseudo-Bonaventura, which describes how the Holy Family visited Elizabeth and her son John on the return from Egypt. The Bible contains no evidence that Jesus Christ ever met John the Baptist before the Epiphany.
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