They were all of the Seventy Apostles. All of them are mentioned by the apostle Paul in his epistles. Herodion was a relative of Pavlov. Greet, writes Paul to the Romans, Herodion my cousin (16, 11). Herodion suffered a lot from the Jews as bishop of Neopatras: they beat him on the head with sticks, hit him in the mouth with stones, stabbed him with knives. And when they left him for dead, Saint Herodion got up and continued to serve the apostles. In Rome, he helped the apostle Peter, and he would be cut down with many other Christians on the same day that Peter was crucified. St. Agave had a prophetic spirit. Two of his prophecies are mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. First, he prophesied a great famine throughout the world, which actually happened during the time of Caesar Claudius. And secondly, when they met in Caesarea with the apostle Paul, who was on his way to Jerusalem, Agabus took Paul's girdle and tied his hands and feet, saying: thus says the Holy Spirit: the man to whom this girdle belongs, this is how the Jews will bind him in Jerusalem (21 , 11). St. Rufus was a bishop in Thebes of Jeladska. The apostle Paul also mentions him: greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord (Rom. 16, 13). He was a bishop in Irkania Asia. St. Phlegon, who is mentioned in the same place, was a bishop in the Thracian city of Marathon. St. Ermija, mentioned with the others, was a bishop in Dalmatia. All of them, like bees of Christ, spread the honey of the Gospel in various regions, suffering a lot for the love of Christ. Everyone moved to the eternal kingdom of the beloved Christ.

Saint Niphon, Bishop of Novgorod. Saint Celestine, Pope of Rome.