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Apostle 1st century

Apostle Nicanor of the Seventy

One of the seven deacons (Acts 6:5) who suffered martyrdom at Jerusalem on the very day the Protomartyr Stephen was stoned.

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One of the seven deacons (Acts 6:5) who suffered martyrdom at Jerusalem on the very day the Protomartyr Stephen was stoned.

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Notes

One of the Seventy Apostles; commemorated in the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles (Jan 4).

Sources: Synaxarion; the traditional catalogue of the Seventy Apostles; New Testament