After the martyrdom of James, and the capture of Jerusalem which immediately followed, an account holds that those of the apostles and disciples of the Lord who were still surviving in this life came together from every quarter to the same place, along with those who were, according to the flesh, of the kindred of the Lord (for many of these too were still living at that time), and all together took counsel as to whom it was fitting to judge worthy of the succession of James. And with one accord they all approved Symeon, the son of Clopas, of whom the writing of the Gospel also makes mention, as worthy of the throne of the diocese there; he being, as they say, a cousin of the Saviour. For Hegesippus relates that Clopas was a brother of Joseph.