who is mary mother of james and joseph
Mary, mother of James According to the surviving fragments of the work Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord of the Apostolic Father Papias of Hierapolis, who lived c. 70–163 AD, "Mary, mother of James the Less and Joseph, wife of Alphaeus was the sister of Mary the mother of the Lord, whom John names of Cleophas"[2] For the Anglican theologian J.B. Lightfoot, this fragment quoted above would be spurious.[3][4]