today’s saint often appears in the Apostolic lists as either “Simon the Zealot” (Luke 6:15) or “Simon the Canaanite” (Mark 3:18). The former, according to The Catholic Encyclopedia is ...

A Novena of Days with St. Simon the Apostle St. Simon shares a feast day with another apostle—St. Jude Thaddeus—on Oct. 28. Simon the Apostle is the patron saint of saw workers and tanners ...

The story ends with the words: “…this is Simon the Canaanite, of whom mention is made in the Gospel.” If we accept the designation “Zealot” as a reference to the 1st-century political ...