Holy Apostle Carpus

Life

One of the Seventy. A follower and companion of the Apostle Paul, by whom he was appointed Bishop of Beroea in Thrace. But he also preached the Gospel in Crete, where he received Saint Dionysius the Areopagite into his home. Saint Dionysius testifies of him that he was a man of extraordinarily pure mind, meekness, and guilelessness; that the Lord Jesus Himself appeared to him in a vision with His angels, and that he never began the holy Liturgy without first having a heavenly vision. Having endured many afflictions for the name of Christ, he at last suffered at the hands of the faithless Jews and was killed, departing in soul to the Kingdom of God, to delight eternally in the vision of the Lord in glory.

From the Hymn of Praise

The holy Apostles, one small company,Illumined the world with heavenly light.On the wings of the Spirit they traversed the world,That they might gift the world with those same wings.