Three works, products of the faith of certain common people, who wrote in the early post-Christian centuries, trying to fill in the gaps of the inspired books of the New Testament regarding the earthly life of Christ and the Virgin Mary. The first of these, known as the Protoevangelium, is of particular importance, the author of which, using the name of James the Brother of God, in order to approach the reader more easily, refers to the parents of the Theotokos, her birth and upbringing[...]