Jesus as a boy was brought to England by His great uncle and later day guardian,provider and protector of the Holy Family after the early death of Joseph[husband to Mary and foster Father to Jesus.Uncle to Mary and great uncle to Jesus was Joseph of Arimathae who lies buried here in his beloved England where he owned tin and lead mines and later fleeing for his life and bringing Mary with him as the true Holy Grail he sought refuge and sanctuary in his beloved England away from and out of reach of those who were persecuting and killing the early Christians - btw the Druids were expecting a messiah named Hesus - twinc
I don’t doubt that there’s some possibility that first- or second-generation Christians went to Britain to preach there (since Tertullian in the 3rd century already mentions Christianity reaching the Britons “inaccessible to the Romans”), but it’s still unclear whether Joseph was actually involved, since the first source connecting Joseph with Britain was in the 9th century work
Life of Mary Magdalene attributed to Rabanus Maurus. And even then, it doesn’t say anything yet about the child Jesus or Joseph being a tin merchant or even the Holy Grail (something that Robert de Boron in the 12th-13th century has fully developed).
And as for the druids: we know precious little about them, actually. Most early sources are secondary (the druids themselves never left any written accounts about themselves) and many of the later ones, such as Christian hagiographies, are generally biased against them or just flat-out ignorant of their actual beliefs and practices. While archaeological evidence has been uncovered pertaining to the religious practices of the Celtic people, not one single artefact or image has been unearthed that can undoubtedly be connected with them.
By the way, did you know that the connection with ‘Hesus’ (actually ‘Esus’) and Jesus actually
had its roots in an anti-Christian polemic (Kersey Graves’
The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors)? First of all, one is tempted to connect the Gaelic name Esus with
Jesus after the 18th century Druidic revivalist Iolo Morgannwg popularized this approach, but I don’t know if the connection would last with the Hebrew/Aramaic name
Yeshua and the Greek
Iesous (
Yay-sus or
Yee-sus).
We don’t know much about the deity Esus - true sources mainly come from two monumental statues and a line in Lucan’s
Bellum civile. The two statues on which his name appears are the
Pillar of the Boatmen from among the
Parisii and a pillar from Trier among the Treveri. In both of these, Esus is portrayed cutting branches from trees with his axe. Esus is accompanied, on different panels of the Pillar of the Boatmen, by
Tarvos Trigaranus (the ‘bull with three cranes’), Jupiter, Vulcan, and other gods.
I doubt a similarity would exist between Esus and the Judeo-Christian concept of the ‘anointed one’ (Messiah), especially since Lucan talks about the gory sacrificial offerings proffered to a triad of Celtic deities: Teutates, Hesus (an aspirated form of Esus), and Taranis. Among a pair of later commentators on Lucan’s work, one identifies Teutates with Mercury and Esus with Mars, the Roman god of war. Victims offered to Esus would be suspended from trees and ritually flailed. Omens were read based on the pattern of the blood spurting out.
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