D E S P O S Y N I - What it means to our family; a discussion.

The HOLY FAMILY 2 ROYAL FAMILY web site has:

        The "kindred" of Jesus, who took the surname "Kyriakon", meaning, "the Lord's House", and their male-line descendants, were honored in very high degree both by Christians and by various Jewish interest groups alike, as heirs of ancient Jewish royalty, or as earthly representatives of "Christ", the eternal king of the universe.  The descendants of The Holy Family were called the "Desposyni"/"Desposynoi", meaning, "The Master's Kin".  Their claims to be the successors of "another king", one, Jesus, other than Caesar (Acts 17:7), made them rivals of the Roman emperors, and, as such the emperors Domitian, Trajan, and Hadrian, carried out proceedings against the "Desposyn[o]i" [descendants of Christianity's "Holy Family"].  Their emblem, or coats-of-arms, varied from a depiction of the "madonna and child", to a depiction of the "paschal lamb" crucified on a cross, to a depiction of "The Holy Grail" painted on a round shield with the supporters of a lion, representing "Judah", and a unicorn representing the "Desposyni"; and its crest was the six-pointed "Star of David" inside the circle of the depiction of the sun shining at its splendor.

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"The Way" was what Christianity was originally called by Christians; and Christians themselves were originally called "Nazarenes" before they were first called "Christians" at Antioch, which was originally a nickname, according to history, out of derision for those that followed "The Way".

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The source of the above information comes from the CHRISTIANITY: THE CHURCH & THE DESPOSYNI web site (?by the same author?).  This more comprehensive discussion (with many references to sources) cites both Kyriakon (The Lord's House) and Kyriakos (presumably, member of the Lord's House) within the argument that the male descendents of the brothers of Jesus represented by those appellations are among the Desposyni (Master's Kin), another appellation, who organized themselves to continue the legacy of Jesus Christ as leaders of both religious and secular organizations of ancient times.  The leaders opposed to them, both religious and secular, did what they could to withstand their competition - mostly, apparently, by removing them and their descendents from the face of the earth through persecutions, inquisitions and wars.
 

QUESTIONS:

  1. Was there any Greek DNA within the "Desposyn[o]i" before they left Jerusalem for Antioch and elsewhere?

  2. Were any of the greek speaking Jews said to be in Antioch around 40 AD members of these "Desposyn[o]i"?

  3. Will DNA testing show whether present day descendents are from a Greek, Jewish, Greek-Jewish combination or other paternal line?

  4. Will that DNA testing provide a good approximation of when new Greek and/or Jewish/Hebrew DNA entered the stream?

  5. Would paternal DNA testing presumably of an all-Greek male line show Jewish/Hebrew or other DNA introduced from the maternal line?

  6. Will our paternal Ciriacks/Cyriacks/Cyriax/Cyriaque/Kyriacou/Kyriakou/Ziriacks et al DNA test results, whenever we begin collecting them, reflect anything other than British, French, German, Greek, Italian, Jewish markers?

  7. Will those test results reflect when other marker lines were introduced into the blood line?  Can they?

 

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