St. Evodius of Antioch

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May 6 · Bishop

St. Evodius of Antioch

St. Evodius of Antioch

Traditional feast

May 6
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

May 6 (also listed: September 7)
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Early life

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What they represent

How they teach us to live

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Baring-Gould’s sources: All Western Martyrologies. Authorities Mention in the Epistle of 6. Paul to the Philippians iv. 2; also in the Epistle of S. Ignatius to the Antiocene Church. The Greeks commemorate SS. Evodius and Onesiphorus together on the same day, April 29th; the Latins venerate S. Onesiphorus on Sept. 6th.] |ggp|ra|j,AINT EVODIUS or EUODIAS, to whom S. I^i Paul the Apostle sends greeting in his Epistle to the Philippians, was the first bishop of Antioch after S. Peter, as S. Ignatius tells us, consecrated to it by the apostles themselves. He is supposed to have suffered martyrdom, but it is very uncertain as to when, and by what manner of death he was called to glorify God ’ and indeed it is very questionable whether there is any authority for regarding him as a martyr. 1 Roman Martyrology. Mentioned Acts xiii. 1. Nothing more is known of him; by some he is called bishop of Cyrene, by others bishop of Olympias, by others bishop of Laodicea; but none have any authority for so styling him. S. AVIA, y.M.

Feast days

Feast: May 6

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Sources & notes

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Sources

Credits

Image: Italian School, Saint Evodius of Antioch, 17th Century.png · Italian School, 17th Century Saint Evodius of Antioch · CC0, 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: Italian School, 17th Century Saint Evodius of Antioch, Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

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.