Saints Oct. 28 St. Jude Thaddaeus, Apostle and Martyr, St. Joachim Royo, Roman Catholic Priest and Dominican martyr in China.St. John Dat, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr of Vietnam, St. Simon the Zealot, Roman Catholic Martyr

Saints Oct. 28 St. Jude Thaddaeus, Apostle and Martyr. St. Jude was one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus. St. Joachim Royo, Roman Catholic Priest and Dominican martyr in China. A Spaniard, Joachim was sent to China with Blessed Peter Sanz and was ordained there. He was strangled to death in a prison after horrible atrocities. St. John Dat, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr of Vietnam. He was a native of that land, ordained in 1798, and arrested in that same year and imprisoned for three months before being beheaded. St. Simon the Zealot, Roman Catholic Martyr. Simon was surnamed the Zealot for his rigid adherence to the Jewish law and to the Canaanite law. He was one of the original followers of Christ. Western tradition is that he preached in Egypt and then went to Persia with St. Jude, where both suffered martyrdom.