Saint Simon the Apostle

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Francesco Moratti, St. Simon, 1704-1709, marble, Arcibasilica Papale di San Giovanni in Laterano, Roma

Simon the Apostle (aso called the Canaanite or the Zealot) was possibly the brother of Saint Jude (Thaddeus) and Saint James the Less, and an Apostle of Christ.  Sources differ on stories of his life and death, but he seems to have been killed by pagans in Persia, by being sawed in half.