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This James is the brother of John the Evangelist. The two were called by Jesus as they worked with their father in a fishing boat on the Sea of Galilee. Jesus had already called another pair of bro...
According to one tradition, Apollinaris was born in Antioch, in modern-day Turkey. The Apostolic Constitutions, a document from the late fourth century, notes that Saint Peter preached in Antioch a...
Benedict was born into a distinguished family in central Italy, studied at Rome, and early in life was drawn to monasticism. At first he became a hermit, leaving a depressing world—pagan armies on ...