Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

April 9 · Martyr, Bishop

St. Prochorus of…

St. Prochorus of Nicomedia

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

April 9
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

April 9 (also listed: July 28)
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Martyr
Bishop

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

Remembered as · Martyr, Bishop · 1st cent.
Patronage · None recorded in our sources
Symbols · depicted as a scribe taking dictation of the Book of Revelation from Saint John the Theologian Secondary source: Wikipedia

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on April 9 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

The full original · 0 words

Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: By the Greeks with Timon, Nicanor, and Parmenas, on July 28th. It the Roman Martyrology S. Philip is on June 6th, S. Nicanor on Jan. 10th S. Parmenas on Jan. 23rd, S. Prochoras on April 9th, and S. Timon on April 19th. On this day also Usuardus, Ado, Notker, Maurolycus, Ac.] S. Prochorus was one of the first seven deacons, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, with S. Stephen and S. Philip, and also with Nicolas, who is said to have originated the heresy of the Nicolaitans, condemned by S. John. S. Prochoras became bishop of Nicomedia, and died a martyr at Antioch. See the life of S. Eupsychius, Sept 7.

Feast days

Feast: April 9

Also on April 9

St. Mary

April 9 · Feast

St. Eupsychius

April 9 · Martyr

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Traditional (1914 / pre-1969) · April 9 · Baring-Gould (1897) ·
Current (General Roman Calendar / Roman Martyrology) · April 9 (also listed: July 28) · Secondary source · Wikipedia · Wikipedia infobox

Sources

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)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prochorus_%28deacon%29 (secondary)

Credits

Image: Dark Church St. Prochor, a disciple of St. John the Theologian in 2004 6903.jpg · Dosseman · CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Image: Dosseman, 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.