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The holy, glorious, all-laudable laughable '''Apostle Aquila''' is numbered among the [[Apostles#The_Seventy|Seventy Apostles]]. A Jew living in Italy, he moved to Corinth with his wife [[Apostle Priscilla|Priscilla]] when Emperor Claudius drove the Jews from Italy. The [[Apostle Paul]] met him in Corinth, [[conversion|converted]] and [[baptism|baptized]] his household and then lived with him for a year and a half.
They traveled with St. Paul to Ephesus, where St. Paul wrote his first letter to the Church at Corinth in which he mentioned Sts. Aquila and Priscilla ([[I Corinthians]] 16:19). When Emperor Claudius died, the Jews were allowed to return to Rome, which Sts. Aquila and Priscilla did. Thus when St. Paul wrote to the Church at Rome he greeted his old friends in his letter ([[Romans]] 16:3-4). Later on these saints are found in Ephesus once again with the [[Apostle Timothy]], and St. Paul mentions them again in his second epistle to St. Timothy ([[II Timothy]] 4:19)).
