Sts Carpus and Alphaeus, of the Seventy (I)

Saints Carpus and Alphaeus, of the Seventy (I). Saint Carpus was a disciple and travelling companion of the holy Apostle Paul. The holy chief of the apostles mentions his name in the Second Epistle to Timothy: in the house of Carpus he had left his cloak and books (2 Tim. 4:13). Saint Paul consecrated Carpus Bishop of Beroea in Thrace. The Apostle Carpus preached the Gospel on the island of Crete. There Saint Dionysius the Areopagite (commemorated 3 October) visited him. In his recollections Dionysius tells of a divine revelation granted to Saint Carpus.

The holy Apostle Carpus reposed in peace in Beroea (according to other accounts he was martyred in the time of the Emperor Nero).

Saint Alphaeus was from the Galilean city of Capernaum. He was the father of the holy Apostles James the son of Alphaeus and Matthew.