What happened in Jesus life between 12 and 29?

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I am simply curious to know how Jesus lived during this period. Are there any references (Strictly Catholic) of his life during this time? Did Jesus reveal anything about his life during this time later on to anyone through visions?
 
That portion of his life is pure mystery, just as John the Baptist’s time in the desert. Anyone who says different is certainly making things up. IIRC, many Gnostic writers in the 2nd and even third century imagined, dreamed or simply made up stories about Jesus’ life.

They attempted to foist their writings on the Church as scripture, but the Church tested them, flatly rejected them as well as the Gnostic teaching that “secret knowledge” (which they just happened to have) would lead to salvation.
 
All we know for sure is that he spent that time in Nazareth with his parents. However, I think it’s safe to assume did carpentry work with Joseph.
 
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Are there any references (Strictly Catholic) of his life during this time?
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I don’t know about strictly Catholic references. However, from nonCatholic Hindu sources I do know that there is a report by Swami Abhedananda who is a disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahansa according to which between the age of 14 to 28 years old, Jesus had visited India and regions of the Himalayas and preached and taught among saints and monks of that area. These records were supposedly discovered in the Himis monastery and confirmed by Nicholas Roerich who made an expedition to india and Tibet in the 1920’s and verified the manuscripts. Supposedly this has some link with the three Wise Men from India or thereabouts at the time of Jesus’ birth. I don’t know all the details. According to some Hindu sources, the symbology of the deeper mysteries of the book of Revelation of St. John accords with certain aspects of the Hindu yoga science and this confirms that Jesus had been in India.
 
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There is in a similar vein a legend that Jesus visited England on a trading mission with his supposed uncle Joseph of Arimathea, which is supposedly the inspiration behind William Blake’s Jerusalem.

The bottom line is that as the Gospels do not mention these years in Jesus life, they are 1) possibly unknown and 2) certainly not important for us to know about.
 
One possible thing that may have happened is that Jesus had a 1st century version of a Bar Mitzvah at age 13. According to Orthodox Jews, this celebration is a very old tradition that started with Isaac.
 
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These records were supposedly discovered in the Himis monastery and confirmed by Nicholas Roerich who made an expedition to india and Tibet in the 1920’s and verified the manuscripts.
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Unfortunately, this was later discovered to be a fraud. But it’s an interesting legend, nonetheless.
 
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

— Luke 2:52
 
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