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Saints Sosthenes, Apollos and Companions

Apostles of the Seventy, several of whom worked beside the Apostle Paul

Honoured as
Apostles of the Seventy
Western calendar
Not kept
Orthodox calendar
8 December, Apostles of the Seventy; also kept on 30 March (21 December on the old calendar)

The Orthodox keep these seven together as Apostles of the Seventy, chosen by the Lord after the Twelve and sent out to preach, and several of them worked beside the Apostle Paul. Sosthenes had been head of the synagogue at Corinth and was beaten in a riot against Paul before Paul brought him to Christ; Apollos, a learned man of Alexandria, laboured long at Corinth and converted many; Tychicus carried Paul's letters to the Ephesians and the Colossians during his first imprisonment. Tradition makes each of them a bishop, and Onesiphorus died a martyr at Parium on the Hellespont, where he had gone to preach Christ.

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