COMMEMORATED ON MAY 17
Saint Andronicus Apostle of the Seventy and Saint Junia were associates of the holy Apostle Paul. They tense extreme, preaching the Gospel to pagans. St Paul mentions them in his Memo to the Romans: "Speak to Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners, who are of perceive in the middle of the Apostles, who as well were in Christ, before me" (Romans 16:7).St Andronicus was completed Bishop of Pannonia, but his preaching as well took him and St Junia to other lands, far from the confines of his diocese. Give instructions the efforts of Sts Andronicus and Junia the Church of Christ was strengthened, pagans were satisfied to the knowledge of God, diverse pagan temples stopped, and in their place Christian churches were built. The service in forename of these saints states that they suffered martyrdom for Christ.
In the fifth century, voguish the reign of the emperors Arcadius and Honorius, their holy relics were unclothed on the boundary of Constantinople together with the relics of other martyrs at the state of Eugenius (February 22).
It was revealed to the virtuous preacher Nicholas Kalligraphos that in the middle of the relics of these seventeen martyrs were the relics of the holy Apostle Andronicus. Afterwards, a outstanding church was built on this zit.
TROPARION - Main 3
O holy apostle Andronicus,Beg the kind God,To present our souls leniency of transgressions.
KONTAKION - Main 2
Let us give prominence to Andronicus, the Apostle of Christ,As a limit shiny starWhose light of the knowledge of God illumines the nations,And the limit sane Junia who establishment his drudgery of evangelization, bewail out:Entreat Christ our God persistently in behalf of us all.
