Myrrh-bearer
Myrrh-bearer Joanna the Myrrh-bearer
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Righteous Joanna the Myrrh-bearer — wife of Chuza, steward of King Herod Antipas; healed by Christ of a grave illness, she followed Him along with other women, providing for Him from her own means; she was present at the Savior's burial and was among the first to come to the tomb with myrrh.
Righteous Joanna was the wife of Chuza, the steward (household manager) of the tetrarch Herod Antipas. Healed by Christ of a grave illness, she, together with other pious women, followed the Savior and the apostles, providing for them from her own means (Luke 8:3).
She was present at the burial of Jesus Christ and, together with the other myrrh-bearing women, came early in the morning on the first day of the week to the Lord's tomb with spices to anoint His body, where she heard from the angels the good news of the Resurrection (Luke 24:10).
She is commemorated on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women — a movable feast, the 3rd Sunday after Pascha (dedicated to all the holy women who served Christ and were the first to learn of His Resurrection) — as well as on her own fixed commemoration day, June 27/July 10.
IMPORTANT DATA CORRECTIONS: the original stub listed an incorrect date, "June 22/July 5" — targeted verification showed the correct date pair to be June 27/July 10. Three additional dates in the original list ("December 20," "January 2," "January 27") were not confirmed by any source and have been removed as contamination unrelated to Righteous Joanna. The category has been corrected from righteous to myrrhbearer, matching the established practice in this database for the myrrh-bearing women individually named at the Lord's tomb (cf. the category of the entry for Righteous Salome the Myrrh-bearer).