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- Apostles Archippus and Philemon of the Seventy, and Martyr Apphia
- Archippus was the son of Saints Philemon (Nov. 22) and Apphia (Feb.
15), and, like them, was a disciple of the Apostle Paul, who calls him
"our fellow soldier" (Philm. 2). He and his father preached the Gospel
at Colossae, and Archippus probably served as a priest for the church
that gathered there at his family's house (Col. 4:17). Archippus' fervor
in preaching the Gospel of Christ so angered the pagans that they
seized him and brought him before the governor Androcles. When the
Saint refused to sacrifice to Artemis, he was stripped, beaten,
tormented in various ways, and finally stoned to death.
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