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.

Just as Simon is distinguished as the “Zealot” or “Canaanite” to mark ... simon and jude saints & art John Grondelski John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean of ...

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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 ...

According to Justus Lipsius, the Flemish Catholic philologist, philosopher, and humanist, Simon the Zealot was sawed in half in Saunir, Persia. This version seems to have a late origin since ...