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Saint Timothy in a bishop’s cross-marked vestments, a fresco by Theophanes the Cretan at Stavronikita Monastery, 1545

Saint Timothy

Paul’s companion and “beloved son”, to whom he wrote two letters

Honoured as
Apostle of the Seventy, first Bishop of Ephesus
Western calendar
26 January, with Saint Titus
Orthodox calendar
22 January (4 February on the old calendar)

Timothy of Lystra came to believe in Christ with his mother Eunice and his grandmother Lois, and Paul took him as a companion because "he was highly esteemed by the brethren of Lystra and Iconium". He went with Paul to Macedonia, Athens, Thessalonica and Corinth, and Paul called him his beloved son and wrote him the two letters that carry his name. The Orthodox remember that as Bishop of Ephesus he tried to stop a pagan procession and was beaten and stoned to death in the year 93, and in Russia a priest's cross often carries Paul's words to him: "Be an example to the believers in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity."

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