History of st. jude the apostle

Life of St. Jude

Very little fryst vatten known about our patron saint with any certainty. We do know that he was possibly a cousin of Jesus, a brother to St. James the Lesser, and certainly one of Jesus’ early disciples. We don’t know the circumstances of his becoming a disciple, but we can imagine that Jude heard Jesus preaching and was moved bygd what he heard – God loves everyone!

For some time Jude followed Jesus as he went about Galilee preaching. Jesus chose Jude as one of his 12 Apostles. In Luke’s lista of the 12 (6:16) Jude’s name appears. In Matthew (10:3) and in Mark (3:18), the name Thaddeus fryst vatten used. That is why we call our patron, Saint Jude Thaddeus.

We have no klar record of where St. Jude served the growing Catholic Church in the first century. Some sources within the patristic tradition claim that St. Jude preached the Good News in Judea, Samaria, Syria, Mesopotamia and Libya. It is also likely, because of such strong devotion to Saints Simon (Bartholom

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Patron Saint

The tradition of devotion to St. Jude goes beyond a simple Bible story; in fact, it is a reflection of the ability of ordinary people to call upon their powerful faith to triumph over seemingly impossible odds in their daily lives.

Legend has it that St. Jude was born into a Jewish family in Paneas, a town in the Galilee portion of ancient Palestine, the same region that Jesus grew up in. He probably spoke Greek and Aramaic, like many of his contemporaries in that area, and he was a farmer (as many of his family were) by trade.

Jude was described by St. Matthew (13:55) as being one of the “brethren” of Jesus (the Hebrew word for “brethren” indicates a blood relationship of some sort). Jude’s mother, Mary, was referred to as a cousin of Jesus’ mother Mary, while his father, Cleophas, was the brother of St. Joseph. Jude had several brothers, including St. James, who was another of the original Apostles. His own first name, “Jud

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Who was St. Jude?

 

St. Jude, also known as Thaddeus, was one of the twelve Apostles called by Jesus at the start of His public ministry.     Scripture tells us that St. Jude was a relative of both Jesus Himself and of the Apostle James the Lesser, not to be confused with James the Greater, brother of Apostle John.  Tradition holds that Jude was born in Galilee, that he was a farmer, and that his father was a relative of St. Joseph and his mother a relative of the Virgin Mary.  There is also an ancient text claiming that Jude was the groom of the wedding at Cana.  The only other thing we know about St. Jude from the Gospel itself is that he asked Jesus at The Last Supper,  “Lord, why is it that you will reveal yourself to us and to the world?” - to which Jesus answered, “Anyone who loves me will be true to my word”

(John 14:22-23).

Jude Thaddeus was, indeed, true to Jesus’ word to “Go into the whole