Crispus

Saint Crispus the Apostle is commemorated on 4 December (new style, the Greek calendar) as an apostle. According to tradition he founded the Church on the island of Aegina and was ruler of the synagogue at Corinth.

Some synaxaria also commemorate him on 8 December, together with other apostles of the Seventy, including Sosthenes. According to Saint John Chrysostom, Crispus is the same as Sosthenes: he supposes that he was also called Sosthenes, a man so faithful that he was even beaten and was always present with Paul (Homily 39 on the Acts of the Apostles). Crispus, as ruler of the synagogue at Corinth, is spoken of in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 18.