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St. James the Greater
He was the first of the Twelve to die for it. Herod Agrippa killed him with the sword in Jerusalem, and Scripture records the fact in a single line with no story attached to it — which Benedict XVI reads as a sign of how ordinary such witness had already become.
Feast July 25 · Galilee