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St. App. from 70: Herodion, Agave, Rufus, Asyncrita, Phlegonta and Hermia “Welcome Herodion, my relative,” writes St. Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans (Rom. 16:2). Herodion was from the city of Tarsus in Cilicia; he was ordained St. Ap. Peter as bishop of the city of Patra, in present-day Livadia, then called the Achai region. He suffered much persecution from Jews and pagans. Once he was tortured half to death by them, but by the grace of God he recovered and followed St. Ap. Peter to Rome to preach the Gospel. On the day of the crucifixion of St. Peter was taken along with Apostle. Olympus and many other Christians and condemned to death. All of them had their heads cut off with a sword. Their bodies were buried with honor by St. Clement, disciple of St. Ap. Peter, who was taken and sentenced to death along with other Christians, but was pardoned, was released from the place of execution alive, because he was a relative of the emperor. “While we were staying with them (with Deacon Philip - in Caesarea, whose four daughters prophesied), a certain prophet came from Judea, named Agabus, and came to us, took Paul’s belt and tied his hands and feet, and said: thus says the Holy Spirit: the man whose this Belt is, the Jews will bind him in Jerusalem and deliver him into the hands of the pagans" ... ( Acts 21:10–11). “In those days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch. And one of them, named Agabus, stood up and foretold in spirit that there would be a great famine throughout the entire world, which happened under Caesar Claudius” (Acts 11:27-28). From the predictions that were fulfilled in his time, it is clear that the Apostle Agabus, who preached the Gospel in the countries around Judea, was gifted from above with a prophetic gift. The Apostle Rufus, who was a bishop in Thebes, is remembered in this way by St. Ap. Paul in his letter to the Romans, Romans 16:13: “Greet Rufus, the chosen one in the Lord, and his mother and mine.” Apostles: Asinkritos, who was bishop in Ircania, Phlegontus, who was bishop in Marathon, Hermias, bishop of Dalmatia, also remembers St. Apostle Paul in the letter to the Romans, Rom.16:13: “Greet Asinkritus, Phlegon, Hermias, and the other brothers with them.” All these Apostles were preachers of the Gospel and martyrs, some to death, for the faith of Christ. St. Novomuch. John Navclere John, who suffered from mental illness, while he was in an unconscious state, was tortured... Struck by horror, when he came to his senses, John threw off the symbol of Islamism - the turban - from his head and, bitterly mourning his misfortune, continued to live as a Christian, for which, after the usual severe beatings, he was taken by the Turks to prison, and when he responded to all their threats and convictions - to live as Islamism demands, he invariably answered only one: “I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and reject your faith,” then, after many tortures, he was burned at the stake. It was in Coy, April 8, 1669 - This is what the logothete John Caryophilus reports about the victim John Naukler. Rev. Rufus the obedient, recluse of Pechersk, who labored in the 1300s. His relics rest in the Feodosiev caves in Kiev. St. Celestine, Pope of Rome. A zealous champion of Orthodoxy during the 3rd Ecumenical Council. He ascended the throne in 423 and died in 432.