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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Apostle

Herodion

One of the Seventy Apostles, a kinsman of the Apostle Paul named in the Epistle to the Romans.

Feast
July 14old style July 27
Era
unknown
Place
Lefkada
Order
Apostles

Life

Holy Apostle Herodion is mentioned by Saint Paul in the Epistle to the Romans (16:11) as his kinsman, and tradition numbers him among the Seventy Apostles; his main commemoration is on 28 March. On 14 July he is celebrated by the local Church of the island of Lefkada, together with the Apostles Paul and Aquila and with Saint Sosion, the first bishop of Lefkada.

A hymn of the day says that the people of Lefkada abandoned the error of idols through the teaching of Herodion and the exhortation of Aquila, and that Sosion became their first bishop. In the Greek synaxarion his commemoration of 14 July is therefore tied to Lefkada, where he is said to have preached.

Commemorated the same day July 14