Adam the Patriarch

Memorial

• 24 December

Profile

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.

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• gardeners
• tailors

Representation

• 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

MLA Citation

• “Adam the Patriarch”. Saints.SQPN.com. 12 November 2012. Web. 22 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/adam-the-patriarch/>