St. Stachys

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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October 31 · Bishop

St. Stachys

St. Stachys

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

October 31
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

October 31
Secondary source · Wikipedia

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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

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Keep their day. Remember them on October 31 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology, Greek Menaea and Menologies.] j|HE Apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans, sends a greeting to Stachys, a Christian residing there, giving him the title of “ Beloved.” The Roman Martyrology, following a worthless Greek tradition, makes Stachys first bishop of Byzantium, ordained to that see by S. Andrew the apostle. There is no certainty of the inconsiderable town of Byzantium having had a bishop before Metrophanes in 325, though Le Quien names Philadelphus as its first bishop in 210.

Feast days

Feast: October 31

Nine days · Free

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

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A

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N

Sts. Nemesius

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Q

St. Quintin

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: Stachys, Amplias, Urban (Menologion of Basil II).jpg · Authors of Menologion of Basil II (circa 985 AC, Constantinople), Byzantine manuscript illuminators[1]: Pantoleon with G · Public domain, 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: Authors of Menologion of Basil II (circa 985 AC, Constantinople), Byzantine manuscript illuminators[1]: Pantoleon with G, Wikimedia Commons (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.