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October 13 · —

St. Carpus

St. Carpus

Traditional feast

October 13
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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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 October 13 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Ancient Roman Martyrology. Ado, Usuardus, Notker, and Modem Roman Martyrology.] ARPUS was a Christian at Troas, with whom S. Paul states that he left a cloak, 1 which he requests him to bring with him when he visits him. According to Hippolytus and the Paschal Chronicle, Carpus was bishop of Beraea in Thrace, and he is commemorated as such in the Greek Church on May 26. The Greek Menaea and Menology on this day commemorate another Carpus, Bishop of Thyatira, who is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology on April 13. [0CLI>

Feast days

Feast: October 13

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

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Sources & notes

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Credits

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.

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.