Lucius of Cyrene
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| Feast | May 6 |
Lucius of Cyrene (
King Herod
's Death:
In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers:
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The account in Acts 13 states that the group of prophets and teachers prayed and
missionary journeys
further afield.
Lucius is indicated as a founder of the Antiochene church by inference from an earlier passage:
Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when
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He is considered to have been the first
Cyrene.[1]
There is also a Lucius mentioned in Romans 16:21. There is no way of knowing for sure whether this is the same person, but Origen identifies the Lucius in Romans with the evangelist Luke (Comm. Rom. 10.39)
Notes
- ^ Walsh, Michael J., (2007) A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West p. 372
References
- Walsh, Michael A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West London: Burns & Oats 2007 ISBN 0-86012-438-X