Lives of the Saints
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James, brother of John the Evangelist, was executed for his faith by a close friend of the Emperor Caligula.
In Acts, Luke refers only briefly to how James, one of Zebedee’s ‘sons of thunder’ and brother of St John the Evangelist, met his end. History and tradition, however, can tell us a little more of the story.