He took the Frankish throne in 768 and became King of Italy from 774. Charlemagne is given relicsĬharlemagne was King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundation for modern France and Germany. In the 7th century they were brought to Rome, probably at the time when the Mohammedans seized Persia. The bodies of Saint Simon and Saint Jude Thaddeus were first buried in Babylon, a city in ancient Mesopotamia, in the fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
SIMON THE ZEALOT SERIES
Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy (as was discussed in the 11th part of this series about Jude Thaddeus) and the Basilica of Saint Sernin in Toulouse, France possess portions of the relics of Saints Simon and Jude Thaddeus. Nereus and Achilleus Church, Rome, Italy by Father Lawrence Lew, OP LAWRENCE OP at Simon the Zealot by Pomarancio, fresco in St. Simon and Jude Thaddeus preached together in Syria and Mesopotamia traveling a far as Persia, where according to the Apocryphal Acts of Simon and Judas, he was martyred by being cut in half with a saw, which is one of his chief iconographic symbols (another being a book). 1611,įrom his Twelve Apostles series at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain It is believed that he also went to Spain and then north to Britain. Simon, who was from Capernaum, may have originally belonged to the Zealots, an extremist group that was opposed to Roman rule in Palestine. The Zealots were originally a political movement in 1st century Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Judaea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms.Īfter Jesus’ death, resurrection and ascension, as Simon’s part in fulfilling The Great Commission, he preached in Egypt and then through north Africa to Carthage.
Believing that Jesus was the Messiah overwhelmed Simon and increased his fervor. Simon Zelotes was also called “Simon the Canaanite” in Hebrew, not because he was from Cana or a Canaanite, but because “Canaanite” is the same word as the Greek word “Zelotes” and the English word “Zealot.” The Biblical meaning of the name Simon is: “That hears, that obeys.” Simon had the name “ Simon the zealot” because of his zealous attachment to his religion as a Jew, and he continued with that name after he met Jesus.
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