Saints Agavos, Roufos, Flegon, and Asygkritos, who were among the 70 Apostles. April 8
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Eις τον Άγαβον. Ψυχὴν Ἀγάβου τοῦ Προφηταποστόλου, Ὁ ψυχοσώστης προσκαλεῖται Δεσπότης. Eις τον Φλέγοντα. Σβέσας πλάνης φλέγουσαν ὁ Φλέγων φλόγα, Οὓς Δαυῒδ εἶπε, πῦρ φλέγον, βλέπει Νόας. Eις τον Pούφον. Παῦλος καλεῖ σε, Ῥοῦφ', Ἀπόστολος μέγας. Ἐκλεκτὸν ὄντως· ὢ ἐπαίνου ἀξίου! Eις τον Aσύγκριτον. Ἀσύγκριτον δὲ πᾶς ἐπαινέσει μάλα. Τοῦτον γὰρ ἠσπάσατο Παύλου τὸ στόμα. Ὀγδοάτῃ μετέβησαν Ἀπόστολοι, ἀγγελέες τε. Today, April 8, our Church honors the memory of Saints Agavos, Rufus, Flego and Asygritos from the 70 Apostles. Of these holy Apostles, Agabus was the one mentioned by the evangelist Luke in the Acts of the Apostles, who, after taking the belt of the Apostle Paul, bound his hands and feet and prophesied about him these things: "Thus says the Spirit the Saint. The man, who is not in this zone, so shall the Jews say in Jerusalem, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles" (Acts of the Apostles, k'11). Indeed, it did. For not only did the Jews bind Paul,...