Saint James the Less

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Among the men named James (???? "Holder of the heel; supplanter"; Standard Hebrew Ya?aqov, Tiberian Hebrew Ya??q??), in the New Testament, whose number may be increased by the variety of epithets and euphemisms applied to them, 'James, son of Clopas', is called "James the Less" or the Younger to distinguish him from Saint James the Great He is sometimes identified with Saint James the Just. He was the son of a Mary (whom Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and others maintain must not be confused with Mary, the mother of Jesus) the wife of Clopas.

He is not to be confused with St James the Apostle, son of Alphaus, who appears in the slightly varying lists of the Twelve Apostles, as does James the Great: Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13.

There are four Biblical Saints of the name 'James':

• James the Great, son of Zebedee, brother of John, called as an Apostle.
• James the son of Alphaus, called as an Apostle.
• James the Just, brother of the Lord.
• James the Less.

James the Less is also mentioned when his mother appears in Mark 15:40 (where he is labelled "less", "little" or "younger" depending on the translation) and Matthew 27:56; her marriage to Clopas is mentioned in John 19:25.

Not much is known about his later ministry. Eusebius of Caesarea reported a tradition identifing him with James the Just, the head of the early Christian Church in Jerusalem.

According to tradition, even though James the Less clung strongly to Jewish law, he was sentenced to death for having violated the Torah. It is said that James the Less was martyred by crucifixion at the city of Ostrakine in Lower Egypt, where he was preaching the Gospel. A carpenter's saw is the symbol associated with him in Christian art because it is also noted that his body was later sawed to pieces [1].

External link

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint James the Less, whom this article identifies with James the Just

References

• James the Less: The Latter Rain Page[[fr:Jacques d'Alph饝][[sk:Sv䴽 Jakub mlad?흝

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Saint_James_the_Less" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_James_the_Less, used under the GNU Free Documentation License