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Saint James the Great (d. AD 44), the son of Zebedee and Salome and brother to Saint John the Evangelist, was one of the disciples of Jesus. He is called Saint James “the Great” to distinguish him from the other apostles named James (Saint James the Less and James the Just).
Saint James is described as one of the first disciples to join Jesus. The Gospel of John relates the two brothers had been followers of John the Baptist, who first introduced them to Jesus (John 1:29-39). The Synoptic Gospels state they were with their father by the seashore when Jesus called them to begin traveling (Mt.4:21-22, Mk.1:19-20). According to Mark, James and John were called Boanerges, or the "Sons of Thunder" (Mk 3:17). In Acts of the Apostles, Luke records that King Herod had James executed by sword (Acts12:1-2).
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Saint James the Great, the apostle, is not to be confused with the author of the Epistle of James. St. James is the brother of John, the sons of Zebedee.
Though the Acts of the Apostles gives no hint of it, and though no work of the Patristic literature mentions it, many people believe that James went to Hispania and preached Christianity there, establishing an Apostolic see. He traveled to Galicia, Spain; Guimares, and Portugal.
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According to ancient local tradition, on January 2 of the year 40 A.D., the Virgin Mary appeared to St. James the Greater on the bank of the Ebro River at Caesaraugusta, while he was preaching the Gospel in Spain. She supposedly appeared upon a pillar Nuestra Seora del Pilar, and that pillar is conserved and venerated within the present Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, in Zaragoza, Spain. Following that apparition, St. James returned to Judea, where he was beheaded by King Herod Agrippa I in the year 44.
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