St. Aristarchus

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St. Aristarchus

St. Aristarchus

Traditional feast

August 4
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Feast

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on August 4 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Usuardus, and the Marlyrologium Parvum. Bj the Greeks, along with Pudens and Trophimus on April 14, and on September 27 with S. Mark and S. Zenas. Authority The Acts of the Apostles.] RISTARCHUS, a Thessalonian, accompanied S. Paul on his third missionary journey. He was with the apostle on his return to Asia; and again on his voyage to Rome. We trace him afterwards as S. Paul’s fellow-prisoner in Col. iv. ro, and Philem. 24. Greek traditions make him Bishop of Apamea in Syria, “ a man of great sanctity, another John, feeding on locusts and wild honey.”

Feast days

Feast: August 4

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Aristarchus's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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M

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

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Credits

Image: Свјетлопис живописа Св. апостола Аристарха у крипти храма Св. Саве у Биограду.jpg · Andrija12345678 · CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: Andrija12345678, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.