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Name:
Saint Timothy
Dates:
Born: ?
Died: January 22, 98
Feast Day: January 26
Biography:
The New Testament describes Timothy as a regular companion of Paul. According to the Book Acts
of the Apostles, Timothy came from Lystra in Asia Minor and was the son of a Greek father and a
Jewish mother who had converted to Christianity. Paul evidently met Timothy during his second
missionary trip and thereafter they became companions, with Paul entrusting Timothy with
a number of important tasks.
Timothy was circumcised by Paul personally and, according to tradition, he was the first bishop of Ephesus. Unfortunately, he was also supposedly martyred there on January 22, 97 CE. The New Testament contains two letters supposedly written by Paul to Timothy, but scholars generally believes that they were written by someone else, someone part of a "Pauline School."
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