One of the Twelve, brother of John the Theologian. At the call of the Lord Jesus, he left his fishing nets and father Zebedee and followed him. He is among the three apostles to whom the Lord revealed the greatest secrets, before whom he was transfigured on Tabor and before whom he grieved in the Garden of Gethsemane. Preaching the Gospel, he went as far as Spain. When the Jews began to argue with him about the Holy Scriptures, unable to do anything, they hired a certain magician Hergaemon, but both he and his disciple Philip, hearing the word of the Apostle, were baptized. Then the Jews persuaded a certain Josiah to slander him and accused him to Herod. But Josiah was also baptized. Saint James was beheaded in the year 45, and Josiah with him. His miraculous relics are in Spain.

Holy Martyr Argyra.