For news of activities and events across the seven dioceses of the
Scottish Episcopal Church, check out the diocesan websites:
Aberdeen & Orkney
Argyll & The Isles
Brechin
Edinburgh
Glasgow & Galloway
Moray, Ross & Caithness
St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane
www.aberdeen.anglican.org
www.argyll.anglican.org
www.brechin.anglican.org
www.edinburgh.anglican.org
www.glasgow.anglican.org
www.morayepiscopalchurch.scot
www.standrews.anglican.org
SAINTS COMMEMORATED IN MAY
3 May Philipp and St James the Less
Two apostles whose actual dates of death are not known are
commemorated on one day because a Basilica in Rome was dedicated to
them. All reference to them is found in the New Testament.
Several disciples of Jesus are called James. We are only certain of the
identities of two of them:
The elder James, also called ‘St James the Great’, Son of Zebedee, whose
grave is venerated at Santiago de Compostella, which is the destination of
the pilgrim paths of St James – and the other James, who is said to be the
brother of Jesus. Protestant tradition assures us that he is not identical with
James number 3, the Son of Alpheus, since they take the word ‘brother’
literally, although it could mean ‘cousin’ in Old Testament tradition.
According to Catholic and Orthodox tradition this
James is called ‘the Less’, sometimes ‘St James the
Just’. He was, as a relative of Jesus, such an
important figure in the early Christian community in
Jerusalem, that the Jewish historian Flavius
Josephus mentions his execution in the year 62.
Legend has it that he was thrown off the temple
walls and then beaten to death with a fullers’ club,
Josephus reports stoning, which was a judicial
murder about which the Community complained to
the Roman Procurator, where upon the High Priest
Annas lost his job.
The great esteem which James enjoyed with his
contemporaries justifies that he is today the Patron
Saint of pastry-and cake makers, a trade which has
produced the goods, at least before the cake mixture or deep freeze was
invented.
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