Person
Jude Thaddeus
1st c.
apostle
Tradition. TRADITION; the Abgar story is legendary.
Eusebius tells, from Edessan archives, that Thaddeus, 'one of the seventy', healed King Abgar of Edessa; later tradition merges him with the apostle Jude. Western tradition has him martyred in Persia with Simon.
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- edessa · Addai/Thaddeus legend (King Abgar) · tradition
- Persia (region) · martyrdom with Simon (Western tradition) · tradition
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