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    James, son of Alphaeus, was one of Jesus's twelve apostles. He is often identified with James the Less. Little is known about him from the New Testament, where he is mentioned a few times as part of lists of the apostles. Tradition holds that he preached in Egypt and was martyred by crucifixion. He is the patron saint of druggists and pharmacists due to his possible identification with other figures.

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    James, son of Alphaeus, was one of Jesus's twelve apostles. He is often identified with James the Less. Little is known about him from the New Testament, where he is mentioned a few times as part of lists of the apostles. Tradition holds that he preached in Egypt and was martyred by crucifixion. He is the patron saint of druggists and pharmacists due to his possible identification with other figures.

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    James, son of Alphaeus

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    Saint James, son of Alphaeus

    Statue of St James at the Church of the Mafra Palace, Portugal

    SaApostle

    Born Unknown

    Died Unknown, Egypt or Jerusalem

    Venerated
    Roman Catholic Church
    in

    May 3 (Roman Catholic Church)


    Feast May 1 pre-1955 General Roman Calendar
    11 May General Roman Calendar, 1955-1969

    Attributes carpenter's saw; fuller's club; book

    apothecaries; druggists; dying people; Frascati,


    Patronage Italy; fullers; milliners; Monterotondo, Italy;
    pharmacists; Uruguay[1]
    James, son of Alphaeus was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus of Nazareth. He is often
    identified with James the Less and commonly known by that name in church tradition.[2]
    James, the son of Alphaeus, is rarely mentioned in the New Testament, but he is sometimes
    identified with James the Just, an important leader in the New Testament church. He is clearly
    distinguished from James, son of Zebedee, another one of the Twelve Apostles.
    James, son of Alphaeus, only appears four times in the New Testament, each time in a list of the
    twelve apostles.[3]

    Contents
    [hide]
    • 1 Identity
    ○ 1.1 Possible identity with James the Less
    ○ 1.2 Possible identity with James, the brother of Jesus
    ○ 1.3 Possible brother of Matthew
    • 2 Tradition
    • 3 References

    [edit] Identity
    [edit] Possible identity with James the Less
    James, son of Alphaeus is often identified with James the Less, who is only mentioned three
    times, each time in connection with his mother. Mark 15:40 refers to "Mary the mother of James
    the younger and of Joses", while Mark 16:1 and Matthew 27:56 refer to "Mary the mother of
    James".
    Since there was already a more prominent James (James, son of Zebedee) among the twelve
    apostles, equating James son of Alphaeus with James the Less made sense. (James son of
    Zebedee was sometimes called "James the Greater"). However, it also made it imperative to
    identify Clopas, the husband of Mary, with Alphaeus, the father of the Apostle James.[4] (For the
    argument on this, see Alphaeus.) This identification was accepted by early church leaders and,
    therefore, tradition knows him more commonly as Saint James the Less.
    Modern Biblical scholars are divided on whether this identification is correct. John Paul Meier
    finds it unlikely.[5] Amongst evangelicals, the New Bible Dictionary supports the traditional
    identification,[6] while Don Carson[7] and Darrell Bock[8] both regard the identification as
    possible, but not certain.
    [edit] Possible identity with James, the brother of Jesus
    James, son of Alphaeus, has also been identified with James, the brother of Jesus. This was
    supported by Jerome and therefore widely accepted in the Roman Catholic Church[9], while the
    Eastern Orthodox and Protestant tend to distinguish between the two.
    [edit] Possible brother of Matthew
    Another Alphaeus is also the name of the father of the publican Levi mentioned in Mark 2:14.
    The publican appears as Matthew in Matthew 9:9, which has led some to conclude that James
    and Matthew might have been brothers. However, there is no Biblical account of the two being
    called brothers, even when they appear side by side in the synoptic list of the Twelve Apostles,
    next to the fraternal pairs of Peter and Andrew and the sons of Zebedee.
    [edit] Tradition
    A tradition holds that Saint James, though strongly clinging to Jewish law, was sentenced to
    death for having violated the Torah. This however, is highly unlikely as the Jewish authorities did
    not practice crucifixion, and unless a possible rebellion was at hand, the Roman authority would
    not involve themselves in Jewish religious affairs. He is reported to have been martyred by
    crucifixion at Ostrakine in Lower Egypt, where he was preaching the Gospel. A carpenter's saw
    is the symbol associated with him in Christian art because it is also noted that his body was later
    sawed to pieces [10]
    [edit] References

    Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Saint James the Less

    1. ^ Catholic Forum Patron Saints Index: James the Lesser


    2. ^ He is also labelled "the minor", "the little", "the lesser", or "the younger", according to
    translation.
    3. ^ Matthew 10:3, Mark 3:18, Luke 1:13 and Acts 1:13.
    4. ^ Clopas is only mentioned in John 19:25; see the Clopas article. Some avoided this problem by
    identifying Clopas as Mary's father and Alphaeus as Mary's husband.
    5. ^ John Paul Meier, A Marginal Jew volume 3, p. 201. "There are no grounds for identifying
    James of Alphaeus - as church tradition has done - with James the Less."
    6. ^ New Bible Dictionary, 2nd Edition (IVP 1982), "James" entry (by P.H.Davids)
    7. ^ "The Expositor's Bible Commentary CDROM, commentary on Matthew (by Don Carson),
    commentary on Matthew 10:2-4
    8. ^ Luke, by Darrell Bock (Baker 1994), commentary on Luke 6:15
    9. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint James the Less
    10.^ James the Less on the Latter Rain page, retrieved March 7, 2007.
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    Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ — (See also Paul)

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