July 20
July 20 (also listed: October 30)
Feast
Joseph Barsabas, surnamed the Just, was one of the seventy-two disciples. He was put forward with St Matthias to take Judas's place among the apostles (Acts 1). St John Chrysostom notes that he was not put out when Matthias was chosen.
After the disciples dispersed he preached to many peoples. Papias, quoted by Eusebius (bishop of Caesarea, d. c. 339, the first historian of the Church), relates that he drank poison without harm.
Keep their day. Remember them on July 20 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: July 20
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Joseph Barsabas's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Le Faouët (56) Chapelle Saint-Fiacre Vitrail de la Sainte Parenté 03.JPG · GO69 · CC BY-SA 3.0, 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: GO69, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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.
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