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Traditionally numbered among the Seventy Disciples / Apostles, Herodion (also Rhodion), Asyncritus, and Phlegon are among those to whom Paul sends greetings in Romans 16. Today is their day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology. In Byzantine-rite churches Herodion is celebrated today along with St. Agabus (the prophet who at Caesarea in Palestine foretold St. Paul's arrest in Jerusalem [Acts 21:10-12]; separately commemorated under today in the Roman Martyrology and under 10. and 11. April in Byzantine synaxaries) and with two other disciples greeted in Romans 16: Rufus of Cyzicus (commemorated in the Roman Martyrology under 21. November) and Hermes or Hermas (who has yet to grace the pages of the Roman Martyrology). In those churches he is also celebrated on 10. November along with the apostles Olympas, Sosipater, Tertius, Erastus, and Quartus. In Greek tradition Herodion is said to have become bishop either of Patras or of Tarsus and to have suffered martyrdom.
Some period-pertinent images of Herodion and others:
Herodion (perh. one of the two figures at left) and his fellow martyrs of 10. November as depicted in the later tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613, p. 173):
http://bit.ly/1SE5Pve
A closer view of the illumination:
http://tinyurl.com/hlhhgjz
Herodion as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/cfl3lbl
Herodion, Agabus, and Rufus as depicted (lower register at left in the upper right-hand panel) in an earlier fourteenth-century pictorial menologion from Thessaloniki (betw. 1322 and 1340; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 35r):
http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/msgrthf1/35r.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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