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- Holy Apostle Carpus of the Seventy
- He was one of the Seventy and a companion of St Paul, who mentions him in 2 Timothy 4:13. He became a Bishop in Thrace (the Great Horologion says in Berea, the Prologue
in Varna), where he suffered martyrdom. St Dionysius the Areopagite met
and wrote about him, stating that Carpus never began the Liturgy
without first receiving a heavenly vision.
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From the Prologue: "We must
not desire the death of a sinner, but his repentance. Nothing so
saddens the Lord who suffered on the Cross for sinners as when we pray
to Him for the death of a sinner and his removal from our path. It once
happened that the Apostle Carpus lost patience and began to pray God to
send death upon two sinful men, the one pagan and the other an apostate
from the Faith. The Lord appeared to him and said: 'Behold, here I am;
ready to be crucified again for the salvation of men.' St Carpus
related this event to St Dionysius the Areopagite, who wrote it down as a
lesson for all in the Church that we must pray for the salvation of
sinners and not for their destruction. For the Lord 'is not willing
that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance' (II
Peter 3:9)."
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source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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