Joseph Barsabas (V)

V. JOSEPH BARSABAS, sirnamed Justus, is one of Jesus Christ’s first Disciples, having been with him from the beginning. He was one of the seventy-two Disciples¹. S. Peter having proposed him, together with S. Matthias, to fill the traitor Judas’s place, S. Matthias was preferred. Joseph continued in the Apostolick ministry to the end; and Papias informs Papias apud Euseb. l. 3. c. 39. Hist. Eccles.us, that this Saint having drank poison, was by the grace of Jesus Christ secured from death. The Martyrologies of Usuardus and Ado place his festival on the 20th of July, and say that he suffered a great deal from the Jews, and that at last he died in Judea, and had a glorious end.

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