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.
When Jesus said to the two brothers, "Come with me." James and John followed the Master. John had a great love for Christ. He thought that Christ's was even greater. So he called himself, "the disciple whom Jesus loved." He is on Mount Tabor at the Transfiguration, at the Last Supper, right up against Jesus, and at Calvary, the only one among the apostles, at the foot of the cross. It is there that Jesus entrusts Mary, his mother, to him. On Easter morning, he runs and precedes Peter to the tomb: "He sees, he believes." An ancient tradition says that John later lived in Ephesus with Mary. That he wrote the fourth gospel there. That a stay on Patmos was the occasion of a revelation that became the Apocalypse.
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