St. Jude is known as the patron of lost causes and desperate cases, as well as patron of hospitals. Jude was one of Jesus’ twelve original apostles. St. Jude is actually a saint known by two names, Jude and/or Thaddeus. The name “Thaddeus” means sweetness and gentleness of character. He is not the traitor Judas Iscariot, but was one of the first disciples to join Jesus and was his true believer through the crucifixion and afterwards, until his own death. 

St. Jude was born in the northern region of Galilee which today is northern Israel. His father was Clopas, brother of St. Joseph, and his mother Mary was a cousin of the Virgin Mary. He was a farmer by occupation and like most people in that time bilingual, speaking Greek and Aramaic. St. Jude and the apostle Bartholomew were the first to bring Christianity to the present day nation of Armenia.

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