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saints are saints who were chosen as special protectors
or guardians over certain things like occupations, illnesses,
churches, countries, causes, in fact, anything that is
important to us. The earliest records show that people
and churches were named after apostles and martyrs as
early as the fourth century.
Our patron saint is Saint James who was son of Zebedee
and Salome, brother of Saint John the Apostle, and may
have been Jesus' cousin. He is actually called Saint James
the Greater because he became an Apostle before Saint
James the Lesser. He was a disciple of Saint John the
Baptist and a fisherman by trade.
James is described as one of the first disciples to join
Jesus. He left everything when Christ called him to be
a fisher of men, on the shores of the River Jordan.
James was one of the three Apostles, along with Peter
and John, privileged to witness three miraculous events:
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