St. James Zebedee or St. James the Greater was one of the first disciples to die for Jesus. A member of a fishing family and brother of St. John the Evangelist, he is one of the three privileged disciples who were closest to Jesus. The apostle St. James was present at the most important moments of Christ's life - the Transfiguration and the Agony in the Garden of Olives - and he witnessed his last miracle, his appearance, resurrected, on the shores of Lake Tiberias. After Jesus' death, he was part of the initial group of the early Church in Jerusalem and was sent to evangelize, according to medieval traditions, Spain.