(please click picture for larger view)

EXCLUSIVELY crafted by Robyn!

Exquisite rosary destined to become a favorite for anyone who has a special devotion to St Jude!
The detailed, highly polished, full-color St Jude center is highlighted by vibrant emerald green Czech glass beads. The grapevine crucifix is ornately decorated and highly polished! This beautiful rosary is a great way to pray the rosary and ask for Our Mother, Mary, and St Jude’s intercession for us!

This is a 5 decade rosary. It measures approx. 20" (inches) in length including the crucifix.

Our Father beads: 6mm Emerald Green Czech Glass round faceted bead with silver-plated bead-cap.

Hail Mary beads: 6mm Emerald Green Czech Glass round faceted bead.

Center: Silver-tone, highly polished full-color depiction of St Jude.

Crucifix: Silver-tone, very highly detailed and highly polished Grapevine crucifix.

St. Jude Thaddeus

Feast Day: October 28
Patron of Desperate Cases

St. Jude, known as Thaddeus, was a brother of St. James the Less, and a relative of Our Savior. St. Jude was one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus.

Ancient writers tell us that he preached the Gospel in Judea, Samaria, Idumaea, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Libya. According to Eusebius, he returned to Jerusalem in the year 62, and assisted at the election of his brother, St. Simeon, as Bishop of Jerusalem.

He is an author of an epistle (letter) to the Churches of the East, particularly the Jewish converts, directed against the heresies of the Simonians, Nicolaites, and Gnostics. This Apostle is said to have suffered martyrdom in Armenia, which was then subject to Persia. The final conversion of the Armenian nation to Christianity did not take place until the third century of our era.

Jude was the one who asked Jesus at the Last Supper why He would not manifest Himself to the whole world after His resurrection. Little else is known of his life. Legend claims that he visited Beirut and Edessa; possibly martyred with St. Simon in Persia.

Jude is invoked in desperate situations because his New Testament letter stresses that the faithful should persevere in the environment of harsh, difficult circumstances, just as their forefathers had done before them. Therefore, he is the patron saint of desperate cases and his feast day is October 28. Saint Jude is not the same person as Judas Iscariot who betrayed Our Lord and despaired because of his great sin and lack of trust in God's mercy.

E-mail a friend about this item.