This Apostle was one of the Twelve, and was called Simon the Cananite by Matthew, but Simon the Zealot by Luke (Matt. 10:4; Luke 6:15). The word "Cananite" used by Matthew is believed to be derived ...

As we celebrate the Feast Day of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles today, I am reminiscing over the experience of witnessing and being in the presence of St. Jude’s relics. Bone from a part of his ...

When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them 'apostles': Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, ...