Matthew and Mark call him the “Cananean” while Luke identifies Simon as a “Zealot.” Although the two labels sound quite different, Cananean is plausibly derived from an Aramaic word for ...

Simon was born in Cana, Galilee. Saint Luke refered to him as the Cananean Zealot. Simon belongs to a secret religious and political group that deplored Roman occupation in Judea. In their desire ...

He was also known as Simon the Zealot, which likely meant that he was originally part of a group of violent revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the Roman empire. In his painting, Fr.