Biographies of the apostles taken from references of scripture and tradition

1. Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles

2. SAINT JUDE
Both Jude and Judas
are translations of
the name Ὶούδας in
the Koine Greek
language original
text of the New
Testament, which
in turn is a Greek
variant of Judah
(Y'hudah),

3. the New Testament
mentions Jude or Judas six
times, in four different
contexts: "Jude of James",
one of the twelve apostles
(Luke 6:16 and Acts 1:13);
"Judas, (not Judas Iscariot)",
apparently an apostle
(John 14:22);
the brother of Jesus
(Matthew 13:55, Mark 6:3);
the writer of the Epistle of
Jude, who identifies himself
as "the brother of James"
(Jude 1).

4. Thaddeus, which means a prince; or Thadee is said of Thadea, that
is a vesture, and of Deus, that is God, for he was “vesture royal of
God” by ornament of virtues, by which he took Christ the prince.

5. He is also called in the History Ecclesiastic, Lebbæus, which means heart, or
worshipper of heart. Or he is called Lebbæus of lebes, that is a “vessel of heart”
by great hardiness, or a “worshipper of heart” by purity, a vessel by plenitude
of grace, for he deserved to be a vessel of virtues and a caldron of grace

6. A model of Christ’s family tree
- According to the surviving fragments of the work “Exposition of the Sayings of the
Lord” of the Apostolic Father Papias of Hierapolis, who lived c. 70–163 AD, Mary the
wife of Cleophas or Alphaeus would be the mother of Judas the brother of Jesus that
Papias identifies with Thaddeus: She may be the aunt of the Virgin Mary.

7. Mt 13,53- “When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there.
54 Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and
they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?”
they asked. 55 “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and
aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? 56 Aren’t all his sisters with us?
Where then did this man get all these things?” 57 And they took offense at him”.

8. Tradition has
it that Jude's
father, Clopas,
was martyred
because of his
forthright and
outspoken
devotion to the
risen Christ

9. The legend reports that St. Jude
was born into a Jewish family in
Paneas, a town in Galilee later
rebuilt during the Roman period
and renamed Caesarea Philippi

10. Jude spoke both
Greek and Aramaic,
and was a farmer
by trade.

11. Little else is
known of his
Jude’s life, but
legend claims
that he visited
Beirut and
Edessa

12. The 14th-century writer Nicephorus Callistus makes
Jude the bridegroom at the wedding at Cana.

13. St. Jude was the one who asked Jesus at the Last Supper why He would
not manifest Himself to the whole world after His resurrection.

14. At the last supper Jesus said, “He that loveth Me, shall be loved of My Father: and I will love
him and will manifest Myself to him." Then Jude asked Him: "Lord, how is it, that Thou wilt
manifest Thyself to us, and not to the world?" And he received from Jesus this reply: "If any
one love Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him,
and will make Our abode with him. He that loveth Me not keepeth not My word. And the
word which you have heard is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me."

15. Thaddeus, one of the twelve apostles, is often indistinguishable from
Thaddeus of Edessa, one of the Seventy Disciples. - In some Latin
manuscripts of Matthew 10:3, Thaddeus is called Judas the Zealot.

16. the legend of the Image of Edessa, recorded in apocryphal correspondence
between Jesus and Abgar which is reproduced in Eusebius' History
Ecclesiastica, I, xiii. - Eusebius relates that King Abgar of Edessa (now
Şanlıurfa in southeast Turkey) sent a letter to Jesus seeking a cure for an
illness afflicting him. - With the letter he sent his envoy Hannan, the keeper
of the archives, offering his own home city to Jesus as a safe dwelling place.

17. The envoy painted a likeness
of Jesus with choice paints
(or alternatively, impressed
with Abgar's faith, Jesus
pressed his face into a cloth
and gave it to Hannan) to
take to Abgar with his answer.
- Upon seeing Jesus' image,
the king placed it with great
honor in one of his palatial
houses. After Christ's
execution, Jude Thomas the
Apostle sent Addai, one of
the 70 or 72 in Luke 10:1–12,
to King Abgar and the king
was cured. Astonished, he
converted to Christianity,
along with many of the
people under his rule.

18. St. Jude, known as
Thaddaeus, was a
brother of St. James
the Lesser, and a
relative of Jesus.
According to Eusebius, he
returned to Jerusalem in the
year 62 and assisted at the
election of his brother,
St. Simeon, as Bishop
of Jerusalem

19. the Apostles Jude and Bartholomew are traditionally believed
to have been the first to bring Christianity to Armenia -

20. Tradition holds that Saint Jude
preached the Gospel in Judea,
Samaria, Idumaea, Syria,
Mesopotamia and Libya. He is
also said to have visited Beirut
and Edessa, though the emissary
of the latter mission is also
identified as Thaddeus of Edessa,
Addai, one of the Seventy.
Saint Bartholomew Monastery
(now in southeastern Turkey)
Thaddeus Monastery (now in northern Iran)

21. He is an author
of an epistle
(letter) to the
Churches of
the East, in
particular
the Jewish
converts,
directed
against the
heresies of the
Simonians,
Nicolaites,
and Gnostics.

22. Saint Jude has left us a short but powerful epistle,
written after the death of his brother James, bishop
of Jerusalem, and addressed to the new Christians
being tempted by false brethren and heretics. His
letter stresses that the faithful should persevere in
the environment of harsh, difficult circumstances,
just as their forefathers had done before them.

23. Jude was beaten
to death with
a club, then
beheaded post-
mortem in 1st
century Persia.

24. St. Jude is often
depicted with a
flame above his
head, representing
his presence at
Pentecost, when he
received the Holy
Spirit with the
other apostles

25. Jude; patron saint of hopeless causes. - few Christians invoked him for misplaced
fear of praying to Christ's betrayer, Judas Iscariot, because of their similar
names. The ignored Jude thus supposedly became quite eager to assist anyone
who sought his help, to the point of interceding in the most dire of circumstances

26. The “Acts of Simon and
Jude” are found in the
collection of passions
and legends traditionally
associated with Abdias,
bishop of Babylon,
and said to have been
translated into Latin
by his disciple
Tropaeus Africanus,
(cf the Golden Legend
account of the saints)

27. Simon later rejoined his brother, Saint Jude, in Persia, where they
labored and died together. At first they were respected by the king,
for they had manifested power over two ferocious tigers who had
terrorized the land. With the king, sixty thousand Persians became
Christians, and churches rose over the ruins of the idolatrous temples

28. According to tradition, Saint Jude suffered martyrdom about 65 AD in Beirut, in
the Roman province of Syria during the 1st century in Lebanon together with the
apostle Simon the Zealot, with whom he is usually connected. The axe that he
is often shown holding in pictures symbolizes the way in which he was killed.

29. The martyrdom of Thadeus

30. In art Jude’s usual
emblem is a club,
the instrument
of his death.
Otherwise, he
holds a ship, while
Simon holds a fish.
This is perhaps
because, as a
cousin of the
Zebedee brothers,
he was also a
fisherman.

31. Saint Simon,
apostle
the Zealot /
from Cana

32. Saint Simon the Zealot or the Zealous, was
the name this Apostle bore among the
twelve. He preached in Egypt, Mauritania
(Spain), and Lybia, leaving behind him the
fertile hills of Galilee, where he had been
engaged in the healthful cultivation of
the vineyards and olive gardens.

33. Simon, sometimes given the epithet “the Less” to distinguish him from Simon
Peter, is known in the Gospels either as Simon the Canaanite or Simon the Zealot

34. Simon is called
Kananaios
(Kananites in
Matthew and Mark)
and Zelotes
(in Luke and the Acts).
Both titles come from
the Hebrew qana,
which means ‘the
zealous one’

35. some, like St Jerome, misread it as a reference to the town of Cana or to the region of Canaan.
(This led to a story that at the wedding feast at Cana [John 2] Simon was the bridegroom!)

36. The Byzantines identify in Simon as Nathanael of Cana
and the canteen director at the wedding of Cana,

37. but Western tradition, as represented by the Roman
Martyrology and dating back to the sixth century, holds that
Simon first preached in Egypt and then joined Jude (who had
been in Mesopotamia), and that together they went to preach
the Gospel in Persia, where they suffered martyrdom at Sufian.

38. Saint Simon told the
crowd that their gods
were only demons, and
ordered them to come
out of the statues, which
they did, revealing
themselves under hideous
forms. But the idolaters
fell on the Apostles and
killed them, while they
blessed God and prayed
for their murderers

39. Arrested and taken to the Temple of the Sun, the sentence imposed on both was
to worship the goddess Diana, and so to deny Christ. In refusing, it is said that Jude
Thaddeus declared pagan idols false, and that at the same time two horrible demons
came out of the temple, destroying him. Frightened, the people watching the scene
are said to have pounced ferociously on the two Apostles, and killed them brutally.

40. Simon was
supposedly
martyred by
being cut in
half with a
saw, a tool
he is often
depicted with.

42. TRADITIONS
The most widespread
tradition is that after
evangelizing in Egypt,
Simon joined Jude in
Persia and Armenia or
Beirut, Lebanon,
where both were
martyred in 65 AD.
This version is the
one found in the
Golden Legend.

43. Another tradition
states that
Simon traveled
in the Middle
East and Africa.
Christian
Ethiopians claim
that he was
crucified in
Samaria,

44. Justus Lipsius writes that Simon was sawn
in half at Suanir, Persia. - St. Fortunatus
of Poitiers states that Simon and Jude
Thaddeus were buried in Suanir, a city in
Persia, where they suffered martyrdom

45. According to an Eastern
tradition Simon
travelled to Georgia on
a missionary trip, died
in Abkhazia and was
buried in Nicopsia.
His remains were later
transferred to Anacopia.

46. This Apostle
is said to
have suffered
martyrdom
in Armenia,
which was
then subject
to Persia

47. Moses of Chorene
writes that he was
martyred at Weriosphora
in Caucasian Iberia.

48. The Monology of Basil the Great tells us that
Simon died a peaceful death at Edessa-

49. Yet another tradition says
he visited Roman Britain. -
According to Caesar Baronius
and Hippolytus of Rome,
Simon's first arrival in Britain
was in the year A.D.44, during
the Roman conquest. Nikephoros
I of Constantinople writes:

50. In this account, in his second mission
to Britain, he arrived during the first
year of Boadicea's rebellion (60 AD).
He was crucified 10 May 61 AD by the
Roman Catus Decianus, at Caistor,
modern-day Lincolnshire, Britain.

51. St. Simon is the patron of woodcutters
and tanners, among others

52. The relics of both saints are at St Peter’s
Basilica, Rome, Italy, under St Joseph’s Altar
National Shrine of St Jude
3200 East 91st Street
Chicago, Illinois, 60617, USA
*Two bone fragments of St Jude
San Salvatore in Lauro - (Holy Savior in
Lauro) - Piazza San Salvatore in Lauro
15 Rome, Italy - *A small bone
fragment from an arm of St Jude

53. According to one account,
Saint Jude's body was
brought from Beirut to
Rome and placed in a
crypt in St. Peter's Basilica.
His bones are in the left
transept of St. Peter's
Basilica under the main
altar of St. Joseph, in one
tomb with the remains of
the apostle Simon the
Zealot. These were moved
here on 27 December 1665

54. The relics of st Jude
reside at Saint Peter's
in Rome, but also at
Rheims, and at
Toulouse, France

55. ORACIONES
"O God, through the work of the apostles you have spoken your Word of love,
your Son, into our world's deafness. Open our ears to hear; open our hearts to
heed; open our will to obey, that we may proclaim the good news with our
lives."
O God, the King of saints, we praise and glorify your holy Name for all your
servants who have finished their course in your faith and fear: for the blessed
Virgin Mary; for the holy patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and martyrs; and for all
your other righteous servants, known to us and unknown; and we pray that,
encouraged by their examples, aided by their prayers, and strengthened by
their fellowship, we also may be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in
light; through the merits of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
O God, we thank you for the glorious company of the apostles, and especially
on this day for Simon and Jude; and we pray that, as they were faithful and
zealous in their mission, so we may with ardent devotion make known the love
and mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

57. THE 12 APOSTLES

58. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH
Revised 20-9-2022
Advent and Christmas – time of hope and peace
All Souls Day
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – In the Light of the Word
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – The Experiences and Challenges of Families
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 - Looking to Jesus, the Vocation of the Family
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - Love in Marriage
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Love made Fruitfuol
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Some Pastoral Perspectives
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Towards a better education of children
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Accompanying, discerning and integrating weaknwss
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – The Spirituality of Marriage and the Family
Beloved Amazon 1ª – A Social Dream
Beloved Amazon 2 - A Cultural Dream
Beloved Amazon 3 – An Ecological Dream
Beloved Amazon 4 - An Ecclesiastical Dream
Carnival
Conscience
Christ is Alive
Fatima, History of the Apparitiions
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – Church and Family today
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - God’s plan for the family
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – family as a Community
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – serving life and education
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – mission of the family in society
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - Family in the Church
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Football in Spain
Freedom
Grace and Justification
Haurietis aquas – devotion to the Sacred Heart by Pius XII
Holidays and Holy Days
Holy Spirit
Holy Week – drawings for children
Holy Week – glmjpses of the last hours of JC
Human Community
Inauguration of President Donald Trump
Juno explores Jupiter
Kingdom of Christ
Laudato si 1 – care for the common home
Laudato si 2 – Gospel of creation
Laudato si 3 – Human roots of the ecological crisis
Laudato si 4 – integral ecology
Laudato si 5 – lines of approach and action
Laudato si 6 – Education y Ecological Spirituality
Life in Christ
Love and Marriage 12,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Lumen Fidei – ch 1,2,3,4
Mary – Doctrine and dogmas
Mary in the bible
Martyrs of Korea
Martyrs of North America and Canada
Medjugore Santuario Mariano
Merit and Holiness
Misericordiae Vultus in English
Moral Law
Morality of Human Acts
Passions
Pope Franciss in Thailand
Pope Francis in Japan
Pope Francis in Sweden
Pope Francis in Hungary, Slovaquia
Pope Francis in America
Pope Francis in the WYD in Poland 2016
Passions
Querida Amazonia
Resurrection of Jesus Christ –according to the Gospels
Russian Revolution and Communismo 3 civil war 1918.1921
Russian Revolution and Communism 1
Russian Revolution and Communismo 2
Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr
Saint Albert the Great
Saint Anthony of Padua
Saint Bruno, fuunder of the Carthusians
Saint Faustina Kowalska and thee divine mercy
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Saint James, apostle
Saint John N. Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia
Saint Joseph
Saint Maria Goretti
Saint Mary Magdalen
Saint Mark, evangelist
Saint Martha, Mary and Lazarus
Saint Martin of Tours
Sain Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta
Saints Nazario and Celso
Saint John Chrysostom
Saint Jean Baptiste MarieaVianney, Curé of Ars
Saint John N. Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia
Saint John of the Cross
Saint Mother Teresa of Calcuta
Saint Patrick and Ireland
Saing Peter Claver
Saint Robert Bellarmine
Saint Therese of Lisieux
Saints Zachary and Elizabeth, parents of John Baptis
Signs of hope
Sunday – day of the Lord
Thanksgiving – History and Customs
The Body, the cult – (Eucharist)
The Chursh, Mother and Teacher
Valentine
Vocation to Beatitude
Virgin of Guadalupe – Apparitions
Virgin of the Pillar and Hispaniic feast day
Virgin of Sheshan, China
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WMoFamilies Rome 2022 – festval of families
Way of the Cross – drawings for children
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59. LISTA DE PRESENTACIONES EN ESPAÑOL
Revisado 27-6-2022
Abuelos
Adviento y Navidad, tiempo de esperanza
Amor y Matrimonio 1 - 9
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – A la luz de la Palabre
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – Realidad y Desafíos de las Familias
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 La mirada puesta en Jesús: Vocación de la Familia
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - El Amor en el Matrimonio
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Amor que se vuelve fecundo
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Algunas Perspectivas Pastorales
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Fortalecer la educacion de los hijos
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Acompañar, discernir e integrar la fragilidad
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – Espiritualidad Matrimonial y Familiar
Carnaval
Conciencia
Cristo Vive
Dia de todos los difuntos
Domingo – día del Señor
El camino de la cruz de JC en dibujos para niños
El Cuerpo, el culto – (eucarisía)
Encuentro Mundial de Familias Roma 2022 – festival de las familias
Espíritu Santo
Fatima – Historia de las apariciones
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – iglesia y familia hoy
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - el plan de Dios para la familia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – familia como comunidad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – servicio a la vida y educación
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – misión de la familia en la sociedad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - participación de la familia en la iglesia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Fátima – Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen
Feria de Sevilla
Haurietis aquas – el culto al Sagrado Corazón
Hermandades y cofradías
Hispanidad
La Iglesia, Madre y Maestra
La Comunidad Humana
La Vida en Cristo
Laudato si 1 – cuidado del hogar común
Laudato si 2 – evangelio de creación
Laudato si 3 – La raíz de la crisis ecológica
Laudato si 4 – ecología integral
Laudato si 5 – líneas de acción
Laudato si 6 – Educación y Espiritualidad Ecológica
Ley Moral
Libertad
Lumen Fidei – cap 1,2,3,4
María y la Biblia
Martires de Corea
Martires de Nor America y Canada
Medjugore peregrinación
Misericordiae Vultus en Español
Moralidad de actos humanos
Pasiones
Papa Francisco en Bulgaria
Papa Francisco en Rumania
Papa Francisco en Marruecos
Papa Francisco en México
Papa Francisco – mensaje para la Jornada Mundial Juventud 2016
Papa Francisco – visita a Chile
Papa Francisco – visita a Perú
Papa Francisco en Colombia 1 + 2
Papa Francisco en Cuba
Papa Francisco en Fátima
Papa Francisco en la JMJ 2016 – Polonia
Papa Francisco en Hugaría e Eslovaquia
Queridas Amazoznia 1,2,3,4
El Reino de Cristo
Resurrección de Jesucristo – según los Evangelios
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 1, 2, 3
Santa Agata, virgen y martir
San Alberto Magno
San Antonio de Padua
San Bruno, fundador del Cartujo
San Francisco de Asis 1,2,3,4
San Francisco de Sales
Santa Faustina Kowalska, y la divina misericordia
Santa Maria Goretti
Santa María Magdalena
Santa Teresa de Lisieux
San Marco, evangelista
San Ignacio de Loyola
San José, obrero, marido, padre
San Juan Ma Vianney, Curé de’Ars
San Juan Crisostom
San Juan de la Cruz
San Juan N. Neumann, obispo de Philadelphia
San Mateo, Apóstol y Evangelista
San Martin de Tours
San Mateo, Apostol y Evangelista
San Maximiliano Kolbe
Santa Teresa de Calcuta
Santos Marta, Maria, y Lazaro
San Nazario e Celso
San Padre Pio de Pietralcina
San Patricio e Irlanda
San Pedro Claver
San Roberto Belarmino
Santiago Apóstol
Santos Zacarias e Isabel, padres de Juan Bautista
Semana santa – Vistas de las últimas horas de JC
Vacaciones Cristianas
Valentín
Vida en Cristo
Virgen de Guadalupe, Mexico
Virgen de Pilar – fiesta de la hispanidad
Virgen de Sheshan, China
Virtud
Vocación a la bienaventuranza
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Vocación a evangelizar
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