Hanging around... and more

Cleo and Mary’s son Thad at some point started hanging around with Mary’s nephew. So did their other son, James, but there was something about Thad. In time, nearly everyone who knew him would automatically associate him with “hopeless causes.”

Later on, Thad teamed up with a fellow named Simon, who had also hung out with the group. The two of them eventually ended up going to Iran and being killed for religious reasons.

Not much else is really known about these two, but they are remembered and venerated today by millions as two of the Apostles of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and as martyrs for preaching the Gospel: St. Simon the Zealot and St. Jude Thaddeus.