Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 13—Like most of the disciples, James, brother of John and one of the sons of the fisherman Zebedee, was an assertive man who ...

Today the church commemorates the Apostle James, brother of the Apostle John, together known as the sons of Zebedee and nicknamed the “Sons of Thunder” for their outburst against a Samaritan town that ...

For 1,500 years pilgrims have been visiting Rome’s Basilica dei Santi XII Apostoli to venerate the remains of two of Christianity’s most important saints: the Apostles Philip and James the Younger. In ...

He’s called St. James “the Greater” to distinguish him from a second Apostle named James (“the Lesser”), probably because he was the taller of the two. Based on what we know from the Gospels, James ...