Adam the Patriarch
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First human being. Lived in the Garden of Eden until expelled by God. Married to Eve. Father of Cain, Abel, Seth and other children. Old Testament Patriarch.
- Gallery of images of Adam
- apple
- receiving life from God
- serpent
- with Eve
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Golden Legend, by Jacobus de Voragine
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
