Simon

(St.,) (si'mòn,) an apostle of Jesus Christ, called the Can a a nite or Zelote. He preached the gospel in Egypt, Libya, and Mauri tan i a, and suffered martyrdom in Persia. He has been thought-but this is very uncertain the same with Simon, one of the " brethren. " of the Lord, believed to be the sons of Alpheus and Mary the Virgin's sister (Matt. xiii. 55; Mark vi. 3). That Simon, however, is said to be the person (called also Symeon) who succeeded James as bishop of Jerusalem (Euseb., Hist. Eccl., lib. iii. cap. 11), and if so, cannot have been an apostle. [s. 828]