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Jude is the patron saint of the Chicago Police Department, of Customs Officers, of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (a soccer team in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and of two St Jude's GAA teams, the first in Templeogue Dublin 6W and also St Jude's GAA club in Southampton & Bournemouth (UK). His other patronages include desperate situations and hospitals.
Judas Thaddaeus, commonly known as Saint Jude (or San Judas Tadeo in Spanish), was one of the Twelve Apostles. A relative of Jesus, he was one of his first followers and after Christ's death, became an evangelizer. [1] [2] He was martyred along with Simon the Zealot, by decapitation with a hatchet. [1]
Jude (alternatively Judas or Judah; Ancient Greek: Ἰούδας) was a "brother" of Jesus according to the New Testament.He is traditionally identified as the author of the Epistle of Jude, a short epistle which is reckoned among the seven general epistles of the New Testament—placed after Paul's epistles and before the Book of Revelation—and considered canonical by Christians.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and research hospital headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, it is a 501(c)(3) designated nonprofit medical corporation which focuses on children's catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. [ 1 ]
Leopoldo C. Jaucian succeeded Peter Tsao and was appointed parish priest at St. Jude Archdiocesan Shrine on July 25, 2000, and installed by Cardinal Sin on August 19, 2000. On July 27, 2001, Ricardo C. Miranda and Joseph Xin Lu were appointed parochial vicar and attached priest respectively.
In an effort to lift the spirits of his parishioners, Tort began regular devotions to Saint Jude. The first novena honoring the saint was held on February 17, 1929. [2] During the Depression of the 1930s and World War II, thousands of men, women, and children attended novenas at the shrine and devotion to the patron saint of desperate causes ...
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Devotion to Saint Jude began in the 600s in the town of Hasroun, North of Lebanon. Saint jude is the patron of this town and high percentage of men from hasroun are named after him i.e. Jude, Leba (from Lebbaus), Teddy or Ted (form Thadeous). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.135.241.45 17:07, 17 March 2010 (UTC)