Holy Apostles Cleopas, Tertius, Mark, Justus, and Artemas

Life

Of the Seventy. The risen Lord appeared to Cleopas on the road to Emmaus. Tertius wrote down the Epistle of Paul to the Romans (Romans 16:22) and ended his life as a martyr, serving as Bishop of Iconium after the Apostle Sosipater (see November 10). Saint Mark (or John, see Acts 12:12) was the son of the devout Mary, whose house was a refuge for the apostles and the first Christians in the earliest days, and a kinsman of Barnabas. He was bishop in the Samarian city of Apollonias. Justus was the son of Joseph the Betrothed. Together with Matthias he was nominated by lot for the place of Judas the traitor, but was not chosen. As a bishop he suffered for the Gospel in Eleutheropolis. Saint Artemas was bishop in Lystra of Lycaonia and reposed peacefully.