Hermas of Dalmatia
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Hermes of Dalmatia (Template:Langx) is numbered among the Seventy Disciples.[1] He was bishop in Dalmatia.
Life
He is usually identified with the Hermes mentioned by Paul in Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"., and said to have succeeded Titus as Bishop of Dalmatia.[1] His feast days are celebrated on April 8 with his fellow martyrs, and on January 4 among the Seventy.
(There is another Apostle of the Seventy by the name of Hermas, who was bishop in the Thracian city of Philippopolis).[2]
Hymns
- Let us praise in hymns the six–fold choir of Apostles:
- Herodion and Agabus,
- Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon and holy Hermes.
- They ever entreat the Trinity for our souls!
Kontakion (Tone 2)
- You became the disciples of Christ
- And all-holy Apostles,
- O glorious Herodion, Agabus and Rufus,
- Asyncritus, Phlegon and Hermes.
- Ever entreat the Lord
- To grant forgiveness of transgressions
- To us who sing your praises.
Kontakion (Tone 4)
- Like stars, O holy Apostles,
- You illumine the way of the faithful with the light of the Holy Spirit.
- You dispel the darkness of error as you gaze on God the Word!
References
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- ↑ a b Brown, C.F. Wemyss. "St. Hermes." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 16 December 2022
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- ↑ "Apostle Herodion of the Seventy, and those with Him", OCA
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Sources
- Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue from Ohrid
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