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☦ Saints & Commemorations

Apostles of the Seventy Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufuf, Phlegon, Hermes

All of these are numbered among the Seventy, and all are mentioned in the Epistles of St Paul. Herodion was a kinsmen of St Paul: ‘Salute Herodion my kinsman’ (Romans 16:11). After many sufferings for the Gospel, he worked with the Apostle Peter in Rome, and was beheaded with him. Agabus was granted a spirit of prophecy: two of his prophecies are important in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 11:28, 21:11). Ruf All of these are numbered among the Seventy, and all are mentioned in the Epistles of St Paul. Herodion was a kinsmen of St Paul: ‘Salute Herodion my kinsman’ (Romans 16:11). After many sufferings for the Gospel, he worked with the Apostle Peter in Rome, and was beheaded with him. Agabus was granted a spirit of prophecy: two of his prophecies are important in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 11:28, 21:11). Rufus was Bishop of Thebes. ‘Salute Rufus, chosen in the Lord’ (Romans 16:13). Asyncritus (Romans 16:14) was Bishop of Hyrcania in Asia. Phlegon, (Romans 16:14) was Bishop of Marathon in Thrace. Hermas (Romans 16:14) was a bishop in Dalmatia.

Rufus the Obedient of the Kiev Caves

Saint Celestine, Pope of Rome (432)

A champion of the Orthodox faith, he sent an epistle to the Third Ecumenical Council, refuting and condemning the Nestorian heresy. He reposed in peace.

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