martyrdom · 63
The Greek menaia have him stoned and then beheaded; the Latin tradition kills him at Jerusalem; and the two accounts do not meet at any point. Nothing early attests either. It is marked legendary and kept, because the alternative is a page that shows a man being chosen to complete the Twelve and then stops — and the choosing is the only thing the New Testament tells us about him, so an absence at the end reads as though the record simply forgot him rather than as what it is, which is two churches remembering differently.
An apostle chosen by lot dies, and the two halves of the church cannot agree where.