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  Barnabas

  Saint Barnabas of the first century, born Joseph, was an Early Christian convert, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem. Like almost all Christians at the time (see also Jewish Christians), Barnabas was Jewish, specifically a Levite. Termed an apostle, he and Saint Paul undertook...
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  Matthew the Evangelist

  Matthew the Evangelist (מתי/מתתיהו, "Gift of Yahweh", Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: Mattay or Mattithyahu; Septuagint Greek: Ματθαίος, Matthaios, Modern Greek: Ματθαίος, Matthaíos), also called Levi, apostle and once a tax collector, composed the Gospel of Christ. It was first published in...
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  Mark the Evangelist

  Mark the Evangelist (Coptic: Ⲙⲁⲣⲕⲟⲥ; Hebrew: מרקוס; Greek: Μάρκος), is the traditional name of the author of the Gospel of Mark. Tradition identifies him with the John Mark mentioned as a companion of Saint Paul in Acts, who later is said to have become a disciple of Saint Peter. John Mark...
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  Gregory the Illuminator

  Saint Gregory the Illuminator or Saint Gregory the Enlightener (Armenian: Գրիգոր Լուսաւորիչ translit. Grigor Lusavorich, Greek: Γρηγόριος Φωστήρ or Φωτιστής, Gregorios Phoster or Photistes) (c. 257 – c. 331) is the patron saint and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church. He was a...
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  Timothy

  Timothy (Greek: Τιμόθεος; Timótheos, meaning "honouring God") was a first-century Christian bishop who died about AD 80. Evidence from the New Testament also has him functioning as coadjutor of Saint Paul. Timothy is mentioned in the Bible at the time of Paul's second visit to Lystra, where Timothy...
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  Pachomius

  Saint Pakhom (Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲡⲁϧⲱⲙ; ca. 292-348), also known as Pachome and Pakhomius, is generally recognized as the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism. His saint day is celebrated on 9 May. He was born in 292 in Thebes (Luxor, Egypt) to pagan parents. According to his hagiography, he was...
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  Luke the Evangelist

  Since Luke was an earlier companion of St. Paul, he knew a great deal about Jesus’ teachings. Luke was well suited to share his understandings of the gospel message with other Gentiles. Luke’s gospel is the first book of a two volume work: the gospel itself and the Acts of the Apostles. Luke...
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  Cyprian

  Saint Kyprianόs (Greek: Κυπριανός Καρχηδόνας) or Saint Cyprian (Latin: Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus) (died September 14, 258) was bishop of Carthage and an important early Christian writer. He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage, where he received...
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  Silas

  Saint Silas or Saint Silvanus (flourished 1st century) was a leading member of the early Christian community, who later accompanied Paul in some of his missionary journeys. There is some disagreement over the proper form of his name: he is consistently called "Silas" in Acts, but the Latin Silvanus...

• Athanasius of Alexandria

  Athanasius of Alexandria (Greek: Ἀθανάσιος, Athanásios) (c. 293 – 2 May 373), also given the titles Athanasius the Great, Pope Athanasius I of Alexandria, and Athanasius the Apostolic, was a Christian theologian, bishop of Alexandria, Church Father, and a noted Egyptian leader of the fourth century...