Known as Joanna the Myrrhbearer. 1st century lay woman. Married to Chusa, steward of King Herod Antipas. Disciple of Jesus, and mentioned in Luke (8.3) as providing for Jesus and the Apostles. Eastern tradition says that she gave the head of John the Baptist an honorable burial. One of the women Luke says (24.10) discovered the empty tomb on the first Easter when she went to anoint the body.
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Jennifer is a derivative of Joanna whose feast day is May 24th. Joanna was the wife of Chuza, steward of King Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. She was one of the women who helped provide for Jesus and the Apostles and was one of the three women who discovered the empty tomb of Jesus on the first Easter morning.
We don't know the city of her birth, but we can assume it was in Israel.
Joanna, the wife of Chuza who was the steward of King Herod, was from Palestine (Israel).
Joanna, the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward, was probably declared a saint by the early Christian community sometime in the first century AD.