This is a writing of fiction, part adventure, part romance, part New Testament and part history of the Egyptian and Roman times.
The orthodox view is that Joseph, the husband of Mary had to be a man advanced in years, to protect the virginity of Mary. And yet, from New Testament records, only a man in his prime could have safeguarded wife and child from the paranoid Herod, a country overthrown by a foreign power and lawless brigandry.
And what of the brothers of Jesus: Simon and James, Joseph and Judas? And sisters unnamed? Obviously Joseph had a previous life. But he did not die years before the mature Jesus began his ministry. Was not one of the first comments made about Jesus "Isn't this the carpenter's son?" – a recent recollection surely.
This tells Joseph's story, and begins before he was called to marry Mary. This novel gives the old story a new human face.
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Pedro Valerio
Peter Dunham is the author who chose the nom de plume Pedro Valerio, partly because it rolls of the tongue, partly because Pedro is a common nickname for Peter, and partly because his mother's maiden name was Valerio. Peter's interest in Saint Joseph has been a long-standing one. He has always lived a Christian life through action, charity and prayer as does his character 'Joseph'. Like his Joseph, Peter is also an adventurer. In 1953 as a young man he rode a motorbike with a sidecar, in which there was a collapsible canoe from Sydney to Katherine in the Northern Territory. He was one of the first white men to canoe the length of the Katherine-Daly river system. He loves the bush, loves travel, loves History and loves to teach.
His novel would probably still be only a dream except, like Saint Paul he was struck down, laid low, not by the voice of God, but by a serious heart attack he had in the middle of the last of his many canoeing trips down the Daly River. After bypass surgery, his action was severely curtailed and he was forced into a life of more sedentary pursuits: he decided to write the novel that had been taking shape in his head for some while.
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