The holy, glorious, all-laudable
Apostle Silas is numbered among the
Seventy Apostles. St. Silas went with Sts.
Paul and
Barnabas from Antioch to Jerusalem to settle the dispute among believers there about
circumcision. He was imprisoned with
Paul (
Acts 16:16-39). Following this he went traveling with St. Paul through Asia and Macedonia and was eventually made
Bishop of Corinth. He reposed peacefully in the Lord. The Church remembers St. Silas on
July 30 with Apostles
Silvanus,
Crescens,
Epenetus, and
Andronicus; and on
January 4 with all the Apostles.
