St john the apostle patron saint of

St John The Evangelist, who is styled in the gospel, The beloved disciple of Christ," and is called by the Greeks "The Divine," was a Galilean, the son of Zebedee and Salome, and younger brother of St.

James the Great, with whom he was brought up to the trade of fishing.

Was the apostle john married

Was the apostle john married

What is st john the apostle known for

How old was john the apostle when he died

When was saint john the baptist born

How did john the disciple die

From his acquaintance with the high priest Caiphas, St. Jerome infers that he was a gentleman by birth; but the meanness of his father's trade, and the privacy of his fortune sufficiently prove that his birth could not much distinguish him in the world, neither could his education give him any tincture of secular learning.

His acquaintance with the high priest may be placed to some other account. Nicephorus Calixtus, a modern Greek historian of the fourteenth century (in whom, amidst much rubbish, several curious anecdotes are found), says, we know not upon what authority, that St.

John had sold a paternal estate to Annas, father-in-law to Caiphas, a little before the death of our Lord. Before