Commemorated on September 7
Euodus and Onesiphorus were apostles of the Seventy. St. Ignatius the God-bearer mentions Euodus with great praise in his Epistle to the Antiochians. Euodus was a disciples of the Apostle Peter, and his successor as Bishop of Antioch.
The Apostle Peter himself consecrated him.Eudous wrote a work on the Holy Theotokos , in which he related how the Holy Virgin Mary was brought to the Temple at the age of three and remained in the Temple for eleven years; how, on entering her fifteenth year, she was entrusted to St. Joseph for protection; and how, at age fifteen, she gave birth to the Lord. Eudous also wrote another work entitled, “The Beacon.”
However, both of these works were destroyed during the persecution of Christians. He was slain for Christ during the Emperor Vespasian’s persecutions in Antioch.
The Apostle Paul mentions St. Onesiphorus as his sincere friend and helper.(II Timothy 1:16-18) St. Onesiphorus suffered for Christ in Colophon, where he was bishop . It is said that he was tied to wild horses and pulled apart. Thus these faithful soldiers of Christ honorably served on Earth and entered into the joy of their Lord.