(New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless.
1 HE was the third bishop of Edessa from St. Thaddæus , one of the seventy-twodisciples.
2 Besides his name of Jude or Judas, he is also called Thaddaeus and Lebbaeus in the Gospels.
3 And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphæus Thaddæus Simon the Canaanite, 19.
4 Thaddaeus 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.
6 10:3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus ;
7 Eusebius also states that in due course Judas, son of Thaddaeus , was sent (in 340 = A.D. 29).
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