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Apostle Erastus

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The holy, glorious, all-laudable '''Apostle Erastus''' is numbered among the [[Apostles#The_Seventy|Seventy Apostles]]. He was the steward of the Church at Jerusalem and later of Paneas in Palestine. The Church remembers St. Erastus on [[November 10]].
==Hymns==
[[Troparion]] (Tone 3) [http://www.oca.org/FStropars.asp?SID=13&ID=103265]
:Holy Apostles, Erastus, [[Apostle Olympas|Olympas]], [[Apostle Herodian|Herodion]], [[Apostle Sosipater|Sosipater]], [[Apostle Quartus|Quartus]] and [[Apostle Tertius|Tertius]],
:entreat the merciful God,
:to grant our souls forgiveness of transgressions.
[[Kontakion]] (Tone 2)
 
:Illumined by divine light, O holy apostles,
:you wisely destroyed the works of idolatry.
:When you caught all the pagans you brought them to the Master
:and taught them to glorify the Trinity.
== Source ==
St. [[Nikolai Velimirovic]], ''The [[Prologue of Ohrid]]''
[[Category:Saints]]