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In remembrance

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

Commemorated April 8

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.

Life from the OCA calendar, via orthocal.info.

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