07 East – Jude
Henry J. Van der Poll – Donor
The boat as a symbol for Jude is an older, less popular symbol for the Apostle known mostly in the secular world as the patron for lost causes – and St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. His travels as a missionary in the first century indicate he traveled to and preached in Judea, Samaria, Idumaea, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Lybia. He is also said to have visited Beirut and Edessa. His brief letter in the New Testament serves as a warning to those dispersed to be mindful of false preachers:
They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever. – Jude 1:12b-13