Apostle Erastus

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Erastus (also Erastos) is numbered among the Seventy Apostles. He served as a deacon and steward of the Church at Jerusalem and later of Paneas in Palestine. The Church remembers St. Erastus on January 4 among the Seventy, and on November 10.
==Hymns==
Troparion (Tone 3) 
:Holy Apostles, Erastus, Olympas, Herodion, Sosipater, Quartus and Tertius,
:entreat the merciful God,
:to grant our souls forgiveness of transgressions.
Kontakion (Tone 2)
:Illumined by divine light, O holy apostles,
:you wisely destroyed the works of idolatry.
:When you caught all the pagans you brought them to the Master
:and taught them to glorify the Trinity.
== Source ==
*St. Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue of Ohrid
==External links==
*Apostle Erastus of the Seventy, November 10 (OCA)
*Apostle Erastus of the Seventy, January 4 (OCA)
*Erastos, Olympas, Herodion, Sosipatros, Quartus, Tertios, Apostles of the 70 (GOARCH)
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