The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementia, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Age

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• [Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs](https://ccel.org/ccel/anonymous/patriarch_testaments/anf08)• [Excerpts of Theodotus](https://ccel.org/ccel/theodotus/excerpts/anf08)• [**Two Epistles Concerning Virginity**](https://ccel.org/ccel/clement_rome/virginity/anf08) by [pseudo-?]Clement, disciple of St. Paul• [Pseudo-Clementine Literature](https://ccel.org/ccel/clement_rome/pseudo_literature/anf08)• [**Apocrypha of the New Testament**](https://ccel.org/ccel/anonymous/apocrypha_nt/anf08) * [**Protoevangelium of James (c. 150)**](https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0847.htm) ref:1177.1-30 ←one of the earliest proofs of Our Lady's perpetual virginity ( *ante* , *in* , & *post partum* ), but unfortunately it thinks St. Joseph was not a virgin (most josephologists think he was: [Calloway, M.I.C.](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=8353), PDF pp. 134-46) but [an old](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/59785/1787) widower; cf. [*The Life of Mary as Seen by the Mystics*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=6524). * [**Acts of Paul and Thecla (c. 180)**](https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0816.htm) ref:1360.1-1360.35 ←St. Thecla, catechumen of St. Paul, had a huge cult in early Christianity, comparable to [the Blessed Virgin's](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=8233). St. Ambrose mentions her in [*De virginibus* II, 3](https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/34072.htm#note343231) ([ref](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=6180):337.1-4); she's the patroness of Milan. This is certainly a true, historically accurate account (compared to the other apocrypha).• [Decretals](https://ccel.org/ccel/anonymous/decretals/anf08)• [Memoirs of Edessa And Other Ancient Syriac Documents](https://ccel.org/ccel/anonymous/memoirs/anf08)• [Remains of the Second and Third Centuries](https://ccel.org/ccel/anonymous/remains/anf08)