St. Jude Thaddeus devotional group has a new banner for their pilgrimage around the diocese Friday, May. 14, 2021 By Laura Vallejo Intermountain Catholic SALT LAKE CITY – In the Roman Catholic Church, St. Jude Thaddeus is the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes. A group of Utah Catholics devoted to the saint began congregating 11 years ago to celebrate a Mass honoring the saint on the 28th day of each month. In 2010, the St. Jude devotional group started going to the old St. Jude Maronite Catholic Church in Murray and praying a rosary to the saint. “Monsignor Bill [Bonczewski], who back then was the pastor there, opened the doors to us,” said Martin Alcocer, a parishioner of the Cathedral of the Madeleine who has a devotion to St. Jude Thaddeus.