"Simon the zealot" Quotes from Famous Books
... into Mesopotamia and Persia, where he suffered martyrdom; whilst, according to others, he travelled through Egypt to Mauritania and thence to Britain, where he was crucified. See Cave's "Lives of the Apostles," Life of Simon the Zealot. No weight can be attached to such legends. Origen states that the Apostle Thomas laboured in Parthia, and Andrew in Scythia. "In Genesim," Opera, ... — The Ancient Church - Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution • W.D. [William Dool] Killen |