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Roman Catholic AnswerIt is actually the "root of Jesse" and it is from the great O Antiphon sung on December 19 each year, it is a symbol of Christ and is taken from Isaiah 11:1. St. Ambrose explains that the root of Jesse is the whole family of the Jews, the stem as Mary, and the flower as Christ. This was taken up in the "Jesse Window" which was a stained glass representation of Christ's human genealogy in the form of a many-branched tree, with Jesse as the root, King David and Jesus' other ancestors as the branches, and Christ as the summit. - extracted from Modern Catholic Dictionary by Fr. Hardon, S.J.
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