We know nothing about St. Peter’s wife, but we do know that
he had one because his mother-in-law is mentioned in Matthew 8:14. Jesus healed
her and then she got up and started serving all the people who were there. But,
what about his wife?
She provides fertile ground for the imagination and that is
what Catherine Magia has done in TheFisherman’s Bride – she imagines a life for this enigmatic figure lost to
history. In her vision, Simon is the oldest of her father’s apprentices in the
fishing business. She is 15 years old and her father has arranged a prosperous
marriage for her to an unkind man. Simon offers to save her from this fate, but
in choosing him, she is disowned.
Under challenging circumstances, she goes on
to build a life with her husband and his band of fishermen. When Jesus enters
their lives, everything changes, and when Simon leaves all behind to go and
follow him, that includes his wife at home who must then pick up the pieces and
carry on.
The Fisherman’s Bride
is an interesting tale of what life was like for a woman in 1st
century Palestine. Magia gives this unknown woman a backstory and even has her
appear in Scripture as another unnamed woman. While this is all pure fiction
and should be treated as such, it was an enjoyable story and did make one
wonder about the real-life women who were left behind when the first Apostles followed
Jesus’ call to become “fishers of men.”
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