Jude Thaddeus
circa 10 AD — circa 65 AD · Feast day: October 28
Jude Thaddeus walked with Jesus and preached across Mesopotamia and Libya, yet spent centuries nearly invisible, eclipsed by his shared name with Judas Iscariot. That very anonymity made him the patron of desperate causes — those with nowhere else to turn kept saying the prayers worked. His single Gospel moment became his epitaph: 'Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not the world?'