The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): JanuaryBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): January
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Christian saints
During the subsequent imprisonment of S. Paul, Timothy appears to have
been with him. He was ordained Bishop of Ephesus, probably in the year
64. S. Paul wrote his first Epistle to Timothy from Macedonia, in 64;
and his second in 65, from Rome, while there in chains, to press him to
come to Rome, that he might see him again before he died.
S. Timothy was afterwards associated with S. John; and in the Apocalypse
he is the Angel, or Bishop, of the Church of Ephesus, to whom Christ
sends His message by S. John.[120] During the great annual feast of the
Catagogii, which consisted of processions bearing idols, with women
lewdly dancing before them, and ending in bloodshed, S. Timothy moved by
righteous zeal, rushed into the portico of the temple, and exhorted the
frenzied revellers to decency; but this so enraged them, that they fell
upon him with sticks and stones, and killed him.
[Illustration: S. TIMOTHY.
From a Window of the Eleventh Century at Neuweiler.
Jan. 24.]
SS. BABYLUS, B., AND COMPANIONS, MM.
(3RD CENT.)
[Latin Martyrologies Jan. 24; Greek Menaea Sept. 4. Authorities:
Eusebius, Sozomen, Philostorgius; and his Acts, written by
Leontius, patriarch of Antioch, A.D. 348, which exist only in a
fragmentary condition; also S. Chrysostom: Contra Gentiles de S.
Babyla, and Hom. de S. Babyla; the latter written in 387.]
On the death of Zebinus, patriarch of Antioch, in the year 237, S.
Babylus was elected to the patriarchal throne. The Emperor Philip,
passing through Antioch in 244, and being, as is supposed, a catechumen,
desired to visit the church. Babylus, informed of his approach, went to
meet him at the gate, and forbade his ingress, because he was stained
with the blood of his predecessor, Gordian, who had associated him in
the empire, and whom he had basely murdered.
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