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John, St
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also known as John, son of Zebedee and John the Evangelist
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| One of the 12 apostles, the son of Zebedee, and the younger brother of James, a Galilean fisherman. He was one of the inner circle of disciples who were with Jesus at the Transfiguration and Gethsemane. Acts and Galatians also name him as one of the ‘pillars’ of the early Jerusalem Church. Some traditions represent him as having been slain by the Jews or Herod Agrippa I; but from the 2nd-c he was said to have spent his closing years at Ephesus, dying there at an advanced age, after having written the Apocalypse, the Gospel, and the three Epistles which bear his name (though his authorship of these works has been disputed by modern scholars). Feast day 27 December. |
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