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Alphaeus

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Alphaeus (ălfē`əs).

1 See Cleophas Cleophas , in the New Testament, husband of one of the Marys who stood at the foot of the Cross. This is apparently Mary the mother of St. James the Less, but the father of James the Less is Alphaeus.
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2 Father of the evangelist Matthew Matthew, Saint, in the New Testament, one of the Twelve Apostles. Also called Levi, he was a publican (tax collector) from Capernaum. Since the 2d cent. the first Gospel (see Matthew, Gospel according to) has been attributed to him, but the attribution is almost
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However, the context makes it clear, that this is not James the son of Zebedee (the brother of John) or the other apostle James, James the son of Alphaeus (as they are mentioned as part of the apostle group before).
Alphaeus Hunton; Roy Wilkins; Ras Makonnen of Guyana who helped in organising the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester, UK, and later directed Nkrumah's African Affairs Bureau in Ghana; Michael Manley, the future radical prime minister of Jamaica; C.
International sponsors also sent greetings to the Salute, including Jawaharlal Nehru of India, African American exiles in Ghana like Shirley Graham Du Bois and Alphaeus Hunton, and the artists and directors of the Moscow Art Theatre.
 
 
 
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