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The holy, glorious, all-laudable '''Apostle Archippus''' is numbered among the [[Apostles#The_Seventy|Seventy Apostles]]. He is mentioned by the [[Apostle Paul]] in his epistle to the Colossians ([[Colossians]] 4:17) and his letter to the [[Apostle Philemon]] ([[Book of Philemon|Philemon]] 11:2). Along with Sts. Philemon and [[Apostle Apphia|Apphia]] he ministered to the town of Colossae from its Christian center, the home of Philemon. During a [[pagan]] feast the Church had gathered in Philemon's home for [[prayer]]. When the pagans learned of it they raided the home and took Sts. Archippus, Philemon, and Apphia to be killed. They were whipped, buried up to their waists and then stoned. St. Archippus survived this attack, barely, and the pagans then pulled him out and left him for the children's amusement. They stabbed him all over with knives and he gave up his soul to God. The Church remembers St. Archippus on [[February 19]].

== Source ==
St. [[Nikolai Velimirovic]], ''The [[Prologue of Ohrid]]''

==External links==
*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=100557 Martyr Archippus of the Seventy Apostles] ([[OCA]])
*[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.asp?contentid=434 Philemon & Archippos, Apostles of the 70] ([[GOARCH]])

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