[S&W, pp. OT 434-435; JBC, p. 517] Now the Catholic Church is not alone in accepting the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also ...

‘Apocrypha’ means ‘hidden things’, and is the term used to describe the books which were not accepted into the Hebrew Canon, but which survive in the Greek Scriptures. These books were written in the ...

The Apocrypha comprises those books not accepted as part of the Bible when the Hebrew canon was set, but which survived in the Greek scriptures. Early editions of the English Bible included the ...

– Answered by Father Johann Roten, S.M. Q: What do we know about Mary's life from apocryphal sources? A: There are a number of ancient texts not in the canon of Sacred Scripture which claim to present ...