Baring-Gould’s sources: Ado, Usuardus, Notker, Roman Martyrology. By the Greeks, Silas is distinguished from Silvan us, and both are commemorated on the same day, July aoth; Silas as Bishop of Corinth, Silvanus as Bishop of Thessalonica. At Angers there is a proper office for S. Silas, so also at Bayeux and Beauvais. He is regarded as the patron of Epinay, in the diocese of Paris. Authority: — Mention in the Acts of the Apostles and the 143rd Ep. of S. Jerome.] N the Epistles of S. Paul, Silas, the companion of S. Paul, is called Silvanus. He appears first as one of the Elders of the Church at Jerusalem, 1 holding office as an inspired teacher. 2 His name, derived from the Latin word “ Silva,” a wood, betokens him a Hellenistic Jew, and he appears to have had the rights of a Roman citizen. 8 He was appointed as a delegate to accompany SS. Paul and Barnabas on their return to Antioch, with the decree of the Council of Jerusalem. 4 Having accomplished this mission, he returned to Jerusalem. 6 He must, however, have immediately re-visited Antioch, July «3J 31 Sara.

…for we find him selected by S. Paul as the companion of his second missionary journey. 1 At Beraea he was left behind with S. Timothy, whilst S. Paul proceeded to Athens, 2 and we hear nothing more of his movements until he rejoined the Apostle at Corinth. 3 His presence at Corinth is several times noticed. 4 Whether he was the Silvanus who conveyed S. Peter's First Epistle to Asia Minor, 5 is doubtful; the probabilities are in favour of the identity. A tradition, of very slender authority, represents Silas as having become bishop of Corinth; that he did occupy this position cannot be accounted as improbable. By some he has been identified with Terentius, mentioned by S. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans. 6 The relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] of S. Silas were given by Pope Sergius, in 691, to S.. Bainus, bishop of the Morini; and they were held in high honour at Therouanne, in the church of S. Mary, till the destruction of that town and church by the Emperor Charles V., in 1553.