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lem, under King Herod Agrippa, a.d. 44, he 

 was beheaded. 



The other apostle St. James, know as "St. 

 fames, the Less," and "St. James, the Just/' con- 

 tinued for a number of years in Jerusalem as the 

 head or Bishop of the Church there. He seems 

 to have acted as president in the first Church 

 Council, the account of which is given in Acts xv. 

 He was the author of an Epistle to the converted 

 Jews who were scattered abroad. (See Epistle of 

 St. James. ) He was murdered in Jerusalem by a 

 mob, just before the destruction of that city. 



St. Peter is repeatedly mentioned in the earlier 

 part of the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, but 

 no mention is made of him in that Book after the 

 Council at Jerusalem, which he attended. 



At first he exercised a sort of headship over the 

 body of Christians during the early years of its 

 history in Jerusalem, but upon his liberation from 

 prison, he left the city, and the ruling power de- 

 volved upon James, the Just. 



St. Paul refers to him as being upon missionary 

 tours, in two of his Epistles, Gal. ii. ; I Cor. ix. 

 St. Peter wrote two epistles to the scattered con- 

 verts in Asia Minor. (See the Epistles of St. 

 Peter.) A great deal of controversy has arisen 

 as to whether it was he who planted the Church in 

 Rome. The Roman Church contends strongly that 

 it was he, and has for that reason, and from a mis- 



