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Memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus,
bishops
St. Timothy
Feastday: January 26
Born
at Lystra, Lycaenia,
Timothy was the son of a Greek father and Eunice, a converted Jewess. He joined
St. Paul
when Paul preached at Lystra replacing Barnabas, and became Paul's close
friend and confidant. Paul allowed him to be circumcised to placate the Jews,
since he was the son of a Jewess, and he then accompanied Paul on his second
missionary journey. When Paul was forced to flee Berea because of the enmity of
the Jews
there, Timothy remained, but after a time was sent
to Thessalonica
to report on the condition
of the Christians there and to encourage them under persecution, a report that
led to Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians when he joined Timothy at
Corinth. Timothy and Erastus were sent to Macedonia in 58, went to Corinth to
remind the Corinthians of Paul's teaching, and then accompanied Paul into
Macedonia and Achaia. Timothy was probably with Paul when the Apostle was
imprisoned at Caesarea and then Rome, and was himself imprisoned but then
freed. According to tradition, he went to Ephesus, became its first bishop, and
was stoned to death there when he opposed the pagan festival
of Katagogian in honor of Diana. Paul wrote two
letters to Timothy, one written about 65 from Macedonia and the second from Rome while he
was in prison awaiting execution. His feast day is January 26.
St. Titus
Feastday: January 26
d.96
A
disciple
and companion of St.
Paul to whom the great saint addressed one of his letters. Paul referred to Titus as "my true
child in our common faith". Not mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles,
he was noted in Galatians
where Paul writes of journeying to Jerusalem with
Barnabas, accompanied by Titus. He was then dispatched to Corinth, Greece,
where he successfully reconciled the Christian
community there with Paul, its founder. Titus was later left on
the island of Crete to help organize the Church, although he soon went to
Dalmatia, Croatia. According to Eusebius of Caesarea in the Ecclesiastical Histor y, he served as the first bishop of
Crete. He was buried in Cortyna (Gortyna),
Crete; his head was later translated to Venice during
the invasion of Crete by the Saracens in 832 and was enshrined in St. Mark’s,
Venice, Italy.
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