St. Jude

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Hello. I am new to the forum. I have to ask a question about St. Jude. My dad said that the St. Jude that betrayed Christ is not the same St. Jude that is the patron St. of lost causes. I say he is. Does anyone have that answer?
 
So I read your post and googled St. Jude, here is what I found:Jude is invoked in desperate situations because his New Testament letter stresses that the faithful should persevere in the environment of harsh, difficult circumstances, just as their forefathers had done before them. Therefore, he is the patron saint of desperate cases and his feast day is October 28. Saint Jude is not the same person as Judas Iscariot who betrayed Our Lord and despaired because of his great sin and lack of trust in God’s mercy
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Hello. I am new to the forum. I have to ask a question about St. Jude. My dad said that the St. Jude that betrayed Christ is not the same St. Jude that is the patron St. of lost causes. I say he is. Does anyone have that answer?
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Judas Iscariot who betrayed Christ and St. Jude are two different people.
 
I think I read somewhere that the request for publication after the Saint Jude novena (which is incredibly effective, btw) is because of the centuries of oversight/mistaken identity.
 
“Jude Thaddeus” was Christ’s cousin and had a striking resemblance to our Lord. “Judas Iscariot” was not related to Jesus and sold our Lord for thirty pieces of silver. “Judas Iscariot” hung himself and the state of his soul is questionable. “Jude Thaddeus” spread the gospel after the death of Christ, he died for the Gospel and is OFFICIALLY recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.
 
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“Jude Thaddeus” was Christ’s cousin and had a striking resemblance to our Lord. “Judas Iscariot” was not related to Jesus and sold our Lord for thirty pieces of silver. “Judas Iscariot” hung himself and the state of his soul is questionable. “Jude Thaddeus” spread the gospel after the death of Christ, he died for the Gospel and is OFFICIALLY recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.
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Curious about this. How do we know?
 
The novena to Saint Jude Thaddeus begins like this:
“O Glorious Apostle, Saint Jude Thaddeus, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the Traitor has caused you to be forgotten by many…”
So you see, even the prayer alludes to the ease by which these two might be confused for one another, at least in name. I think that may be one reason for his patronage of lost causes…because his faithfulness to Our Lord is obscured by the fact that he shares his name with the one who betrayed.
 
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