James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer.” —Acts 1:13–14a St. James the Less is known as “James, son of ...

and James, son of Alphaeus. The Catholic doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary holds that James the son of Alpheus and James, brother of Jesus are the same person, as James could not be ...

and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. In many ways, this passage of Saint Mark’s Gospel is a very familiar story.