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Thaddaeus

Meaning (breast)-- one of the twelve apostles of Jesus (Mt 10:3; Mark 3:18); Also called Lebbaeus (Mt 10:3) and Judas the son of James (Lk 6:16; Acts 1:13).

Nothing else is known about this most obscure of the apostles, but some scholars attribute the Epistle of Jude to him.