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Icon of the Apostle Simon]] The , Tiberian Hebrew ), was one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus ; little is recorded of him aside from his name. Few Pseudepigraphical writings were connected to him (but see below), and Jerome does not include him in ''De viris illustribus''. The name of Simon occurs in all the passages of the Synoptic Gospels and Acts that give a list of apostles, without further details. Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and Judas To distinguish him from Simon Peter, he is called ''Kananaios'', or ''Kananites'' ( word ''qana'', meaning ''The Zealous'', though Jerome and others mistook the word to signify the apostle was from the town of Cana (in which case his Epithet would be "Kanaios") or even the region of Canaan . As such, the translation of the word as "the Cananite" or "the Canaanite" is purely traditional and without contemporary extra-canonic parallel. Robert Eisenman has pointed out (Eisenman 1997 pp 33-4) contemporary Talmud ic references to Zealot s as ''kanna'im'' "but not really as a group — rather as avenging priests in the Temple". (Eisenman's broader conclusions, that the zealot element in the original apostle group was disguised and overwritten to make it support the assimilative Pauline Christianity of the Gentile s is more controversial.) In the canonic New Testament Simon the Zealot is never identified with Simon the brother of Jesus mentioned in '' Gospel Of Mark '' 6:3 : "Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?"" That Simon was Simeon Of Jerusalem , counted by the Church as the second Bishop Of Jerusalem after James The Just . Isidore Of Seville drew together the accumulated anecdotes of St. Simon in ''De Vita et Mort'', but the fullly-devoped aura of legend is presented in the '' Legenda Aurea '' (''ca'' 1260) {Link without Title} . Apostle Simon is burried in Komani ( Georgia ). IN LATER TRADITION In later tradition, Simon is often associated with St. Jude as a proselytizing team; they share their Feast Day on 28 October . The most widespread tradition is that after evangelizing in Egypt , he joined Jude in Persia and Armenia , where both were martyred. This version is the one found in the Golden Legend . Later traditions expand on an independent personality for Simon and speculate about his fate. One tradition states that he travelled in the Middle East and Africa; another says he visited Britain -- possibly Glastonbury -- and was martyred in modern-day Lincolnshire . Another, doubtless inspired by his title "the Zealot ", states that he was involved in a Jewish revolt against the Romans , which was brutally suppressed. The 2nd century '' is identical with the apostle Thomas (see Jude Thomas ), an identification of "Simon Zelotes" with Thomas is also possible. The New Testament records nothing more of Simon, aside from this multitude of pseudonyms. Simon had the symbol of a saw because he was put to death by a saw. See also the variant name Simeon . REFERENCES
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