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James of Jerusalem, Bishop and Martyr — James, called the Just and known in Scripture as the Lord's brother, became the first leader of the church at Jerusalem and one of the most respected men in the city, honoured by believers and by many who did not believe alike. Paul names him among the pillars of the church, and Acts shows him presiding at the Jerusalem Council. He was killed in Jerusalem around AD 62, stoned at the order of the high priest Ananus. His feast is October 23.

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Simon and Jude, two of the Twelve, are kept together on October 28. Simon carries the surname "the Zealot," and Jude, also called Thaddaeus, asked Jesus the only personal question the Gospels give him, at the Last Supper. The New Testament says little more of either man, but the church has long held that they carried the gospel together into Persia and died together for it, and it keeps them on one feast for that reason. Jude is remembered above all as the friend of hopeless causes, the apostle Christians turn to when every other door seems shut.