Prayer to St. Jude Thaddeus for the Most Difficult Causes Glorious Apostle St. Jude Thaddeus, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, you are the blessed patron of difficult and desperate cases.

Matthew and Mark likely called Jude by another name to distinguish ... who was the mother of James the bishop and apostle, and of Simon and Thaddeus, and of one Joseph…” Since James, son ...