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Holy Apostles Evodus and Onesiphorus 9/20/2013
They were numbered among the Seventy Apostles of the Lord. Evodus was mentioned by Saint Ignatius in one of his letters to the Antiochians with a great gratitude. Evodus was a disciple of the Holy Apostle Peter and his successor on the throne of the Archbishop of Antioch. He wrote a composition on the Most Holy Mother of God, in which he writes how the Holy Mother of God was presented in the Temple at three years of age; how she had stayed at the Temple for eleven years; how when she turned fifteen she was given to Joseph to look after her and how in her fifteenth year of age she gave birth to God. He wrote another work called "The Star". Still, both of these works were destroyed at the time of the persecutions of the Christians. He was murdered for Christ's sake at the time when Emperor Vespasian resided in Antioch. The Holy Apostle Paul mentions Saint Onesiphorus as his devoted friend and assistant (2 Timothy 1, 16 -18). He suffered for Christ in Colophon, where he had been a bishop. It is said that he was tied up to horses and torn apart. These devoted soldiers of Christ honourably suffered and inhabited the joy of their Lord.
