Who is Saint James?
One of the two James’ of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ; He was called St. James the Great. (Better known as St. James the Greater among Taga-Ibaan). The son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of St. John the Evangelist. Jesus called the brothers, Boarneges meaning “son of thunder” because of their zeal. With Peter and John, James was one of the three privileged disciples who witnessed the transfiguration of Jesus and His agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. He was beheaded by Herod Agrippa I, ruler of Judea, in about 44 A.D. James was the first of the twelve disciples to be martyred. According to Jewish historian Josephus, James represents a type of early Christianity that represents sound teaching and moral behavior. He is especially venerated in Spain because of an unsubstantiated tradition, that he preached there shortly before his death. His Life as a Missionary He arrived in Iberian Peninsula as a missionary in 41 A.D. At that time the Blessed Mother, knowing how preaching
