James the Less
Christian saint · Religious Figures · Lived 100 to 62 · aged -38
James the Less is read about 408 times a day, in 32 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 16 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A first-century apostle distinguished from his more prominent namesake by a nickname that meant younger or shorter, not lesser in rank - though history remembers him mostly as the one who needed the label.
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About this person
Jerome identified him as the same person called "James the Just" and "James, brother of Jesus" in scripture, understood by some as a cousin rather than sibling, and Papias of Hierapolis linked him to "James, son of Alphaeus," one of the Twelve Apostles. The Western Church traditionally commemorated him alongside Philip on 1 May, a date the Roman Catholic calendar shifted to 11 May in 1955 to make room for the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, then moved again to 3 May in a later revision. Many other churches, including the Church of England, kept the original May Day observance. The nickname that stuck - "the Less" - was meant to distinguish him from James the Great, marking a difference in age or stature that became his enduring epithet.
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