Feast Day: January 4th
Luke 10:1
“After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go.”
Prayers
Troparion: Holy Apostles of the Seventy, entreat the Merciful God to grant our Souls forgiveness of transgressions.
Kontakion: O faithful, let us praise with Hymns the Choir of the Seventy Disciples of Christ. They have taught us all to Worship the Undivided Trinity, for they are Divine Lamps of the Faith.
Hymn of Praise to The Seventy Holy Apostles: O knights of the Cross, sons of light, you have not yet passed, O children of the future, for you are not dead, as Christ is not, but lives with life that never decays. The Lord, You the Wreath-giver, beautifully crowned you because His Name, you loudly proclaimed before emperors and princes, before executioners terrible. God, you served; but with torment, the world repaid You. You walked after Christ, O bees of Christ! The world you filled with honey; the vessels you filled! Souls you alleviated; passions you calmed, with Evangelical sweetness you sweetened life, with the aroma of Christ, you censed the Earth, salt, light and incense to the world, you were. Seventy Companions, all with the same love, as branches with the tree, with Christ, you were attached; Seventy Stars, around the Sun – Christ, and there, the Angels are and the Virgin All-Pure, there, unutterable delight, joy unseen, Glorious Victors of this transitory time. Holy Apostles, glory and thanks be to you. From your blood, justice blossomed.
The names of the 70 Apostles are:
Agabus, Aquila, Ampliatus Bishop of Odyssopolis, Ananias Bishop of Damascus, Andronicus, Apelles Bishop of Smyrna, Apelles Bishop of Heraclea, Apollos Bishop of Caesarea, Aristarchus Bishop of Apamea, Aristobulus Bishop of Britain, Artemas Bishop of Lystra, Archippus, Asyncritus, Achaicus, Barnabas, Carpus, Caesar, Cephas, Clement Bishop of Sardis, Quartus, Crescens Bishop of Chalcedon, Epaenetus Bishop of Carthage, Epaphroditus Bishop of Colophon, Erastus Bishop of Paneas, Eubulus, Euodius Bishop of Antioch, Fortunatus, Gaius Bishop of Ephesus, Hermas Bishop of Philippae, Herodion Bishop of Patras, Jason Bishop of Tarsus, Linus established by Saint Peter as Bishop of Rome, Luke Bishop of Laodicea, Mark also called John Bishop of Byblos, Mark nephew of Barnabas and Bishop of Apollonias, Narcissus Bishop of Athens, Nymphas, Onesimus, Onesiphorus Bishop of Colophon, Patrobas Bishop of Pozzuoli, Philemon Bishop of Gaza, Pudens, Rufus Bishop of Thebes, Silas Bishop of Corinth, Silvanus Bishop of Thessalonica, Stachys disciple of Paul and Andrew Bishop of Byzantium, Stephanas, Sosthenes Bishop of Colophon, Sosipater Bishop of Iconium, Tertius Bishop of Iconium, Timothy Bishop of Ephesus, Titus Bishop of Crete, Trophimus, Tychicus, Zenas Bishop of Diospolis.
Other disciples of Christ or of the Apostles: Quadratus, Olympas, Phlegon, Philologus, Urban Bishop of Macedonia. With them we also associate the ‘Lord’s brethren’, the sons of Joseph: James first Bishop of Jerusalem, Justus Bishop of Eleutheropolis, Symeon (Cleopas) Bishop of Jerusalem, six of the seven Deacons: Stephen, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon and Parmenas, as well as Zacchaeus who climbed a sycamore tree to see Christ.
? Saint Mark the Evangelist, Saint Luke the Evangelist, Saint Cleopas Apostle of the 70
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