Herodion of Patras
bishop and saint
Feast: 4 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Herodion of Patras (also Herodian or Rodion; Greek: Ἡρωδίων, Ἡρωδιανός, Ῥοδίων) has been thought by some to have been a relative (συγγενής) of Saint Paul, as in a greeting Paul calls a Herodion a sungenēs in Romans 16:11. But Paul uses the term συγγενής (sungenēs) for fellow Jews in Romans 9:3. So συγγενής (sungenēs) can mean relative even as broadly as fellow Jew. According to tradition, Herodion of Patras was numbered among the Seventy Disciples and became bishop of Patras, where he suffered greatly. After beating, stoning, and stabbing him; they left him for dead, but St. Herodion arose and continued to serve the Apostles.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q984386 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Herodion of Patras (CC BY-SA)
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