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Saint James is the patron saint of Spain and, according to tradition, what are believed to be his remains are held in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. He is also known as James, son of Zebedee, Saint James the Great, Saint James the Greater, Saint James the Elder, or Saint Jacob, James the Apostle or Santiago.
James the Just, or a variation of James, brother of the Lord (Latin: Iacobus from Hebrew: יעקב, Ya'aqov and Ancient Greek: Ἰάκωβος, Iákōbos, can also be Anglicized as "Jacob"), was, according to the New Testament, a brother of Jesus. He was the first leader of the Jerusalem Church of the Apostolic Age.
James St. James (born James Clark; August 1, 1966) is a television & internet personality, author, celebutante, frequent collaborator with Mathu Andersen, and former "Club Kid", a member of the New York City club scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Saint James Led to His Martyrdom was a scene, part of a fresco, by Andrea Mantegna.The fresco was found in the Ovetari Chapel of the Eremitani Church in Padua.The scene was found on the lowest row on the left wall, painted sometime between 1453 and 1455.
James the Apostle is said the Less, how well that was the elder of age than was St. James the More. He was called also the brother of our Lord, because I have resembled much well our Lord in body, in visage, and of manner. He was called James the Just for his right great holiness. He was also called James the son of Alpheus.
Saint James Matamoros (9th cent.), or Saint James the Moor-slayer James of the Marches (died 1476), papal legate and inquisitor. Venerable James of Sclavonia , Croatian monk who was prone to ecstasies, worked miracles and levitated
However, James's successor as leader of the Jerusalem church, Simeon, is not, in tradition, appointed till after the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70, and Eusebius's notice of Simeon implies a date for the death of James immediately before the siege, i.e. about AD 69. [130] The method of death of James is not mentioned in the New Testament. [131]
Eusebius quotes from Hegesippus fifth and last book [14] a long account of the death of James the Just, "the brother of the Lord", who was given the obscure Greek epithet Oblias, which is supposed to be a Greek transliteration of a Semitic word. [15] Dr. Robert Eisenman connects "Oblias" with "Protector of the people", as were other 'Zaddikim ...