vatican tour:did you know that saint Jude is buried in the vatican ?

VATICAN TOUR: DID YOU KNOW THAT ST JUDE IS BURIED IN THE VATICAN?

If you take a private Vatican tour, you can have the chance to see where Saint Jude is buried.

St Jude and his brother, st James the Less, were counted among the 12 Apostles and are considered to have been blood relatives of Jesus.
The original form of Jude’s name was Judas, but this was changed to distinguish him from the betrayer of Jesus although he is sometimes also distinguished in Scripture as Judas Thaddeus, Judas the brother of James, or Judas, son of Alpheus.

He suffered martyrdom and his body was temporarily entombed in Mesopotamia and was taken to Rome where it was interred in the old basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican City. When the present basilica was in the process of construction in 1605, Pope Paul V Borghese ordered to transfer the relics to a new altar, the altar of Saint Joseph located in the left transept.
Small relics of St Jude have been distributed worldwide, but a major relic, the forearm, is in the possession of the Dominican Fathers at the St Jude Thaddeus Shrine in Chicago.

Records of this relic trace it originally to the Armenian Dominicans, but when they fled their country in the 18th century because of the Moslem persecution, they settled in Smyrna in Asia Minor and eventually entrusted the relic to the Dominican monastery in that city. Knowing that devotion to St. Jude was greatly exercised in the United States, and knowing that the shrine of Saint Jude in Chicago wished to have a larger relic, it was placed in their care with the approval of provincials and major superiors of the order in 1929.

St Jude is the special patron and advocate of desperate and seemingly hopeless problems.

He shares his feast, October 28th, with Saint Simon, presumably because they preached in Mesopotamia and died together.

St. Jude is shown, traditionally, as carrying the image of Jesus in his hand.