Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. The Martyrologium Parvum, Ado, Usuardus, Notker, Hrabanus, &c. By the Greeks on Oct. 30.] LEOPHAS, the disciple, going to Emmaus, on the day of the Resurrection, when Jesus joined himself to him, explained to him the Scriptures, and was made known to him in the breaking of bread,1 was possibly the same as Cleophas, more accurately Clopas, or Alphseus, who is named in S. John’s Gospel.2 Clopas was the father of the Apostle S. James the Less,8 a husband of that Mary (called in S. Mark xv. 40, mother of James the Less and of Joses) who was standing by the cross of Jesus with the Blessed Virgin and others. In Mark ii. 14, Levi or Matthew is also said to have been the son of Alphseus. Hegesippus, quoted by Eusebius, says that Cleophas and S. Joseph, the husband of Our Lady, were brothers, and v?. Firminus.

S. Epiphanius says the same. Hegesippus, being the earliest ecclesiastical historian of whom fragments remain, is the best authority we have for this statement He says that he was the father of Simon. Alphaeus, the father of Levi, cannot have been the same man, nor probably was Cleopas, the disciple of Emmaus. Mary, the wife of Cleopas, is believed to have been the sister of Mary the Virgin. Their children were James and Joses, Jude and Simeon, cousins of the Lord.

S. Cleopas was regarded as patron of the Teutonic Order. The Cleopas commemorated in the Roman Martyrology is he who lived at Emmaus, and the Martyrology adopts the legend that he was massacred by the Jews in the very house where the Lord had been made known to him by the breaking of bread. There is no historical evidence that this was the case.