where was saint joseph from?
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 Joseph is said to have arrived in Glastonbury by boat over the flooded Somerset Levels . On disembarking he stuck his staff into the ground and it flowered miraculously into the Glastonbury Thorn ( or Holy Thorn ) . This is said to explain a hybrid Crataegus monogyna ( hawthorn ) tree that only grows within a few miles of Glastonbury , and which flowers twice annually , once in spring and again around Christmas time ( depending on the weather ) . Each year a sprig of thorn is cut , by the local Anglican vicar and the eldest child from St John 's School , and sent to the Queen . 

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 The Laroche family , father Joseph and daughters Simonne and Louise , were the only known passengers of black ancestry on board the ship . They , along with Joseph 's pregnant wife Juliette , were travelling to Joseph 's native island of Haiti . Joseph hoped that a move from their former home in Paris back to Haiti , where his uncle Cincinnatus Leconte was president , would take his family away from racial discrimination . 

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 Though the traditional biblical date for the narrative of Joseph ’ s life and death places him in Egypt in the middle of the Twelfth Dynasty , roughly comparable to the Hyksos invasion of Egypt , contemporary scholarship no longer accepts such a remote dating . The figure of Joseph itself is often taken to be a ‘ personification of a tribe ’ , rather than an historic person . 

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 According to a DNA analysis , he is a descendant through African ancestral lines of the Igbo people of Nigeria . 
