Jude Thaddeus

Saint Jude Thaddeus is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. He is often identified as the brother of James the Less and one of the 'brothers of the Lord.' Author of the Epistle of Jude in the New Testament, he exhorts the faithful to persevere in the faith. According to tradition, after Pentecost, he preached the Gospel in Judea, Samaria, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia (modern-day Iran), often alongside Saint Simon the Zealot. They are said to have suffered martyrdom together around 65 AD. He became the patron saint of desperate cases and difficult situations, a devotion that particularly developed in recent centuries, perhaps due to the confusion of his name with that of Judas Iscariot, which long made his veneration less popular, before he was rediscovered as a powerful intercessor.