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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Saint James - July 25



Saint James the Greater
July 25 


James the Greater was the son of Zebedee a Galilean fisherman and the brother of John the apostle.  Jesus called James and John as they were mending their fishing net with their father on the Sea of Galilee.  The brothers immediately left their father and followed Jesus. (Matthew 4:21-22)  Possibly because of their tremendous zeal, Christ gave them the name the “sons of thunder.” (Mark 3:17) James was part of the trio of disciples, with John and Peter, who were eyewitnesses to the raising of Jairus’s daughter (Luke 9:40-55), Jesus at the Transfiguration (Mark 9:2-8), and Jesus in his agony in the garden of Gethsemane (Mark 14:32-33).  The martyrdom of James is recorded in Acts 12:2 where he was beheaded at the hand of Herod Agrippa in A.D. 44.





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Saint James the Greater - Guido Reni

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