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Apostle 1st century

Apostle Crescens of the Seventy

A companion of Paul (2 Tim 4:10) who preached in Galatia and Gaul; by tradition a bishop in Gaul who suffered for the faith.

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A companion of Paul (2 Tim 4:10) who preached in Galatia and Gaul; by tradition a bishop in Gaul who suffered for the faith.

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The Seventy Apostles
Commemorated together · Jan 4
His companions & kin
Apostle
Apostle Peter
Hierarch
Photius the Great Patriarch of Constantinople
Hieromartyr
Hieromartyrs Marcellus of Sicily Philagrius of Cyprus, and Pancratius of Taormina
Hieromartyr
Hieromartyr Pancratius Bishop of Taormina
Equal-to-the-Apostles
Cyril & Methodius
Apostle
Apostle Archippus of the Seventy
Notes

One of the Seventy Apostles; commemorated in the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles (Jan 4). Distinct from the Martyr Crescens of Myra.

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