A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Salome

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SALOME,

Wife of Zebedee, and mother of James the Greater, and John the Evangelist. She was one of those holy women who attended and ministered to our Saviour in his journeys. She requested of Jesus that her two sons might sit one on his right, and the other on his left hand. Mark xv. 40. She followed Christ to Calvary, and did not forsake him at the cross. She was one of those women who came early on Sunday morning with perfumes to embalm the body of Christ.