These objects identify them to the faithful who are praying to the saint for an answer to their prayers or novena intentions. Almost all the apostles and saints can be identified in this way. Naturally, the better-known saints are more easily identified: St. Peter holding the keys to the Kingdom; St. Sebastian full of arrows; St. Lucy with her eyes on a plate; the giant St. Christopher with the Christ Child on his shoulders. However, when it comes to our patron, St. Jude, the images are more complicated.
As is clear in the image of him here, he is usually shown with the attributes that relate to his life and death, as well as a few objects that have accrued to him during the early centuries of Christianity, such as the legend of St. According to St. James the Lesser. Both were related to Jesus as distant cousins. One might also ponder that because his name has a sort of taboo around it followers might not be willing to invoke it as often.
It's ironic because Saint Jude is arguably one of the most mentioned saints in prayer, and often seen in artwork and statues. Some people think that Thaddaeus was used to differentiate Saint Jude from Judas, the man whose sin and lack of trust in God's mercy led to betrayal. It's agreed upon by biblical scholars that St. Jude was the son of Clopas and his mother Mary was the Virgin Mary's cousin.
That being said it should come as no surprise that St. Jude is the Patron Saint of Hope and impossible causes. He preached the Gospel with great passion, and in the most uncertain of circumstances during the time period.
Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that the Lord has once for all entrusted to us, his people. Jude Luke and Acts are the only two mentions of St.
Jude in the New Testament. Very little is known about his story. Cities, States, and Countries all over the world pay respect to Apostle Jude and have constructed buildings dedicated to his memory. Jude Devotions in Baltimore in The National Shrine of St. Jude in Chicago, Illinois was founded in by the Claretian Missionaries. Jude their official patron saint. Perhaps the most famous devotee of Saint Jude was Danny Thomas, the star of the hit t. Thomas established there.
Jude was a true internationalist, traveling throughout Mesopotamia, Libya, Turkey, and Persia with St. Simon, preaching and converting many people to Christianity. He was credited with helping the early creation of the Armenian Church, and other places beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. Around the year 60 A. Jude wrote a Gospel letter to recent Christian converts in Eastern churches who were under persecution.
In it, he warned them against the pseudo-teachers of the day who were spreading false ideas about the early Christian faith. He encouraged them to persevere in the face of the harsh, difficult circumstances they were in, just as their forefathers had done before them.
He exhorted them to keep their faith and to stay in the love of God as they had been taught. His inspirational support of these early believers led to him becoming the patron saint of desperate cases.
He is believed to have been martyred in Persia or Syria around 65 A. The axe or club that he is often shown holding in pictures symbolizes the way in which he was killed. Truly, he paid the ultimate price for his faith. After his death his body was brought back to Rome and was placed in a crypt beneath St.
Jude is traditionally depicted carrying the image of Jesus in his hand or close to his chest. This idea comes from a apocryphal story in which King Abgar of Edessa a city located in what is now southeast Turkey asked Jesus to cure him of leprosy and sent an artist to bring him a drawing of Jesus.
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