Saint Simon and Saint Jude share the same feast day - 28th October.
Simon the Zealot, or Simon the Canaanite, or Simon the Canaanean is one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus. He appears in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) and the Book of Acts each time there is a list of the 12 apostles without further detail
Simon ( also called Peter) then Andrew (Peter’s brother), James (son of Zebedee). John (James’s brother), Philip, Barthlomew, Thomas, Matthew (the tax collector) James (son of Alphaeus), Thaddaeus. Simon ( the zealot) Judas Iscariot (who later betrayed him) . NLT Study Bible
Matt 10 v 1-4 Luke 6 v14-16 Mark 3 v13-19 Act 2 v13
Simon may have belonged to the strict group of Pharisees who called themselves the Zealots.
Saint Jude was known under various names. In the list of 12 apostles above he is identified as Thaddeus. Elsewhere he is called Jude of James, Jude Thaddaeus, Judas Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus.
He is sometimes identified with Jude , the brother of Jesus but is clearly distinguished from Juda Iscariot, the apostle who who betrayed Jesus. In the Roman Catholic church he is the patron saint of desperate and lost causes
Most versions of the New Testament in languages, other than French or English, refer to Jude and Judas by the same name this makes Identification difficult.
He in not thought to be the author of the epistle of Jude! (Read ‘Identity’)
They are both listed in Acts ch 2 when the Holy Spirit fell upon upon the eleven and the other believers (about 120) at Pentecost. They are not mentioned again.
It is said that St. Simon might have been martyred in Persia and that St Jude was martyred at the same time.
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