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JB_Brother_4446
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Was the apostle Thaddeus the brother of James the son of Alphaeus, or the son of James the Great as some suggest?
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Moro_Rock
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I always believed that Thaddeus was Jude, or known as Judas Thaddeus .
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marymary1975
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Distinguishing both James has always been a little hard for me. The way I can distinguish is James the Bishop.of Jerusalem and James from.Santiago de Compostela. St Jude Thaddeus was the brother of James the Bishop of Jerusalem and brother of.Simon, and they were the sons is Clopas (st Joseph’s brother) and Mary of Clopas.
Now which James was James the less I have no idea, but I can tell you that the brother of st jude was the one that was bishop of.Jerusalem.
Now which James was James the less I have no idea, but I can tell you that the brother of st jude was the one that was bishop of.Jerusalem.
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TimothyH
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Thaddeus is St. Jude, Apostle and cousin of Jesus Christ.
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AmbroseSJ
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James the Less was the Bishop of Jerusalem, of the kindred of Jesus. James the greater is the son of Zebedee, the brother of John the Evangelist.
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_thaddeus
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I don’t know the correct answer to your question for sure. Probably James the Great because it sounds better.
I think it should be mentioned though that Thaddeus means gift of God with special empathy for desperate cases and lost causes. That’s the way it seems at least.
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Eliza10
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Yes and he really answers prayers. Saint of Impossible Causes. He feels like my friend because of prayers he answered.
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TimothyH
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We have a relic of St. Jude in my Church and have a Mass, novena to St. Jude with veneration of the relic and benediction every Thursday evening.Yes and he really answers prayers. Saint of Impossible Causes. He feels like my friend because of prayers he answered.
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patrick457
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There’s really two Thaddaeuses: one (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18) is part of the Twelve and is usually identified with “Judas not Iscariot” (John 14:22) or “Judas of James” (Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13). (Some would even identify him with Judas, another ‘brother’ of Jesus who is reckoned to be the author of the Epistle of Jude.)
The other (St. Thaddaeus / Addai of Edessa) is considered to be one of the Seventy.
Trivia: modern Western depictions of St. Jude Thaddaeus is actually a conflation of Jude Thaddaeus and Addai of Edessa.
http://www.shrineofstjude.org/Images/ssj/pages/ssj_share_pray_send_prayer-donation.jpg
The staff St. Jude usually carries is actually a confused depiction of a club. (Jude was supposedly either beaten to death with a club, or beheaded, or both. That’s why in earlier depictions of Jude, if he isn’t simply depicted as holding a book or, well, holding nothing, he can either hold a club or a sword or an axe or a halberd, maybe even a knife.) The medal with the image of Jesus, meanwhile, comes from the legend of the Holy Mandylion of Edessa (which was connected with Addai of Edessa).
Addai with King Abgar and the Mandylion
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patrick457
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(1) James son of Zebedee (brother of John): One of the Twelve (Matthew 10:2; Mark 3:17; Luke 6:14; Acts 1:13); this is the James that was killed by Herod Agrippa (Acts 12:2) and whose remains supposedly arrived in Santiago de Compostela.
(2) James son of Alphaeus: One of the Twelve (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13)
(3) James the Younger / James the Less: He has a brother named Joses/Joseph and a mother named Mary (Matthew 27:56; Mark 15:40, 16:1; Luke 24:10)
(4) James “brother of the Lord”: One of the ‘brothers’ of Jesus (Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3; Galatians 1:18-2:10), the first bishop of Jerusalem (Acts 12:17, 15:13-21, 21:17-18).
(5) James the author of the Epistle of James
(6) James father/brother of Judas: Appears only in Luke’s works (Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13); one of the Twelve is identified as “Judas of James.”
It’s common in Latin Christianity nowadays to identify (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) as referring to the same person. In Eastern Christianity, (2) and (3), or at least (2) (= James the Younger, son of Alphaeus) is distinguished from (4), (5), (6) (= James the Just, ‘brother’ of Jesus and Jude).
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marymary1975
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Sooo confusing. That is why I have problem.identifying them.
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Saul_to_Paul_1
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I would love to attend one of those Masses. I have prayed to St. Jude Thaddeus on several occasions and powerful miracles have been worked as a result. I was originally drawn to St. Jude because he’s the patron saint of lost causes, of which I was one.
I feel a special connection to and devotion to St. Jude Thaddeus. I’ll recount one miracle worked through his intercession. My wife and I were eating at a restaurant. She started to feel dizzy then passed out. She was taken by ambulance to the hospital where she had a facial droop and paralysis on her left side. She was diagnosed as having had a stroke and admitted to the ICU.
I prayed and prayed to St. Jude. Then something very strange happened. A hospital worker came into the room to clean it, but he told us we all needed to pray so we (me, him, daughter) held hands around my wife’s bed and prayed. I kept on praying to St Jude Thaddeus. My wife started to feel better. Later the doctor came in and was shocked - no facial droop, no paralysis. She continued to improve and was discharged with no lasting effects.
This is only one example of St. Jude’s intercession in seemingly hopeless situations. Another involves my daughter stopping meth.
I know this thread was about something else, but whenever I see or hear St. Jude Thaddeus mentioned I have to praise him and give a testimony.
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