Feast Day:
May 03
Also known as
Jacobus Minor, James the Younger, James the Just
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Apostle. Cousin of Jesus. Brother of Saint Jude
Thaddeus. One of the first to have visions of the risen Christ. First Bishop
of Jerusalem.
Having been beaten to death, a club almost immediately became his symbol.
This led to his patronage of fullers
and pharmacists,
both of whom use clubs in their professions.
Like all men of renown, large stories grew up around James. He is reported
to have spent so much time in prayer that his knees thickened, and looked
like a camel's. Soon after the Crucifixion, James said he would fast until
Christ returned; the resurrected Jesus appeared to him, and fixed a meal
Himself.
Died
martyred
c.62
@ Jerusalem by being thrown from a pinnacle of the Temple, then stoned and
beaten with clubs while praying for his attackers
Patronage
apothecaries,
druggists,
dying people,
fullers,
hatmakers,
hatters,
milliners,
pharmacists,
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