Spikenard is a plant found in the Himalayas of china, India and Nepal. It does not contain any spices.

The Saint is Joseph.

In the King James version

the word - spikenard - is used 5 times

# Son 1:12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. # Son 4:13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, # Son 4:14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: # Mar 14:3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. # Joh 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

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