From the Prologue of Ochrid
One of the Twelve. The son of Joseph and Salome, and the brother of James, the Brother of the Lord. With Salome, the daughter of Angeas the son of Barachiah son of Zechariah, Joseph the carpenter had four sons: James, Joses, Simon, and Jude. This Jude is sometimes called Jude of James, after his more renowned brother James. Saint Jude begins his epistle thus: "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James" (Jude 1:1). Although he too could have called himself the Brother of the Lord as much as James, he did not do so out of humility and shame, for at first he did not believe in Christ the Lord; and when the elder Joseph before his death wished to give a share of his property to Jesus as to his other children, they all opposed this, including Jude — only James voluntarily set aside a portion of his own share and designated it for Jesus. Jude is also called Levi and Thaddaeus. There is another Thaddaeus, one of the Seventy Apostles (see August 21), but this Thaddaeus, or Jude, was one of the great Apostles. He preached the Gospel in Judea, Samaria, Galilee, Idumea, Syria, Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Armenia. In Edessa, the city of Abgar, he completed the preaching of that other Thaddaeus. When he was preaching in the regions around Ararat, he was seized by the pagans, crucified on a cross, and killed with arrows, that he might reign eternally in the kingdom of Christ.
