(New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless.
1HE was the third bishop of Edessa from St. Thaddæus, one of the seventy-twodisciples.
2Besides his name of Jude or Judas, he is also called Thaddaeus and Lebbaeus in the Gospels.
3And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphæus Thaddæus Simon the Canaanite, 19.
4Thaddaeus from the village of Nain in Galilee said last night he had leprosy for more than seven years before he heard of Jesus.
5'Thaddaeus?' His voice was frightened, pathetic -not the voice of a man who had presumed to lecture princes.
610:3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
7Eusebius also states that in due course Judas, son of Thaddaeus, was sent (in 340 = A.D. 29).
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