JAIRUS. - Ruler of the synagogue (v.) of Capernaum, whose daughter was raised from the dead by Jesus. The miracle of the raising of Jairus's daughter performed by Jesus at Capernaum (Mt. 9:18-26; Mk. 5:21-43; Lk. 8:40-56) is rarely represented on Christian monuments.

It appears in painting in a half-destroyed fresco in the "cubiculum clarum" of the cemetery of Priscilla (Wilpert, Pitture, p. 293, pl. 232, 2). A sarcophagus from Arles presents two moments of the episode: Jairus's servants announcing to Jesus the death of the girl, and Jesus Christ who, having taken her by the hand, makes her rise alive from the bed; at the Master's feet is the woman with the hemorrhage touching his garments. The scene of the resurrection with an identical scheme is also found on a sarcophagus in the Lateran Museum. The Gospel episode is, finally, also represented on the precious ivory casket of the Museum of Brescia (4th century).

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BIBL.: H. Leclercq, Jaïve, la fille de, in DACL, VII, II, cols. 2121-23; Wilpert, Sarcofagi, I, pl. XXXVIII, 3 (Arles), CXXIII, 3 (Lateran); II, pp. 303-404; J. Kolwitz, Die Lippanothek von Brescia, Berlin 1933, pp. 23, 35, pl. 3.

For Jairus judge of Israel, v. JAIN.

Luigi M. Catteruccia

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