Apostle of the Seventy Thaddeus

Thaddeus, one of the Seventy whom Jesus sent out (Luke 10), is the apostle of Edessa. Eusebius of Caesarea, writing in the 4th century, quotes from the archives of Edessa a correspondence between Jesus and King Abgar and tells that after the Ascension the apostle Thomas sent Thaddeus to the city, where he healed the king and preached. St Dimitry's account adds that he was a Jew of Edessa, baptized by John the Baptist, and that, after preaching in Mesopotamia and Syria, he died in peace at Berytus, now Beirut, c. 44. Church writers distinguish him from the apostle Jude Thaddeus of the Twelve.