The apostles are thought to have died for the same reasons that Christians continue to die - the Gospel message offends many, and some who find it so believe they can extinguish it by eradicating those who accept or preach it. Jesus warned the apostles that they would suffer much simply because of their association with Him.
As far as we can tell, none of the apostles actually suffered a martyr's death. Acts of the Apostles mentions the imprisonment and miraculous release of Peter, but does not say anything about his subsequent death, even though the book was written around the end of the century, long after Peter would have died. A second-century tradition was that he was beheaded, while a later tradition was that Peter was crucified upside down. In fact, the story in Acts is dubious at best, and the later traditions have no evidence to support them. There is no factual evidence to support Christian traditions about the martyrdom of any of the early Christians, with the probable exception of James, brother of Jesus. Paul was imprisoned, which lends plausibility, but no more, to the tradition that he was executed.
As for the long-term picture, the third-century Church Father, Origen, writing of the total of Christian martyrs up to his own time, states (Contra Celsum, 3.8) that there were not many - and that it was easy to count them.
Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) says that the ecclesiastical writers of the fourth or fifth centuries ascribed to their pagan predecessors the same degree of implacable and unrelenting zeal which filled their own breasts against the heretics or the idolaters of their own times. He says that the first Christians confessed that the greatest part of those magistrates in the provinces, to whose hands alone the jurisdiction of life and death was entrusted, behaved like men of polished manners and liberal education, who respected the rules of justice, and who were conversant with the precepts of philosophy. They frequently declined the odious task of persecution, dismissed the charge with contempt, or suggested to the accused Christian some legal evasion by which he might elude the severity of the laws. Whenever they were invested with a discretionary power, they used it much less for the oppression than for the relief and benefit of the aflicted church.
St. James the Greater was stabbed to death by King Herod Agripa in 44 AD.
Saint James the Greater was killed by King Herod and the first of the apostles to die. He was martyred in AD44.
The Apostle Peter (Simon Peter Crucified upside down in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Nero in 64AD The Apostle Andrew. Andrew was crucified in Greece on an X-shaped cross The Apostle James. The Apostle James was the older brother of John the Apostle. James was beheaded. He was "put to death with the sword" by King Herod (Acts 12:2). The Apostle John The Island of Patmos where he possibly died of natural causes. The Apostle Philip. Carthage, Greece, where he was crucified (the Greeks say head downwards), and then stoned to death. The Apostle Bartholomew. The Apostle Bartholomew (also known as Nathaniel) It is believed that he suffered the terrible double sentence of being flayed alive and crucified. Near Persia and Phrygia. The Apostle Thomas. The Apostle Thomas (also known as Didymus) preached in Persia and India where he was killed by four soldiers armed with spears. The Apostle Matthew. he is believed to have been axed to death at Naddabar in Ethiopia with a halberd (a pike fitted with an axe head). The Apostle James the Less (the son of Alphaeus). The Apostle James (James the Less) preached in Syria and it is believed that he was clubbed to death. The Apostle Jude Thaddaeus. The Apostle Thaddaeus was crucified at Edessa. How did the Apostle Simon die? The apostle Simon is believed to have been crucified in Persia. The Apostle Judas Iscariot die? The Apostle Judas Iscariot committed suicide by hanging himself. Outside of Gethseminy The Apostle Matthias die?
St. James the Apostle Anglican Church was created in 1955.
St James the Apostle Primary School was created in 1982.
James the Less was called so to distinguish him from the other Apostle James, who was the brother of John. It is believed that he may have been younger or of shorter stature compared to the other James.
St James the Apostle Primary School's motto is 'Learning with Strength and in Gentleness'.
Apostle James the Greater was Apostle John's brother. I think God drew them to Christ.
There was also a second apostle named James the Greater. It is unknown why they distinguished the two in this manner. One suggestion was that one was taller than the other. Yet another possible reason was that James the Greater became an apostle before James the Less.
The apostle James originally lived in Nazareth in the province of Galilee, and later moved to Jerusalem
Saint James the Greater is known as the brother of Saint John the Apostle. They were both apostles of Jesus and were referred to as the "Sons of Thunder" in the Bible.
Nicola Sementovsky-Kurilo assigns to the apostle James the Elder the zodiac sign Leo.