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The holy, glorious, all-laudable '''Apostle Erastus''' (also ''Erastos'') is numbered among the [[Apostles#The_Seventy|Seventy Apostles]]. He was the served as a [[deacon]] and steward of the [[Church of Jerusalem|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) [http://www.oca.org/FStropars.asp?SID=13&ID=103265]
:Holy Apostles, Erastus, [[Apostle Olympas|Olympas]], [[Apostle Herodian|Herodion]], [[Apostle Sosipater|Sosipater]], [[Apostle Quartus|Quartus]] and [[Apostle Tertius|Tertius]],
:Illumined by divine light, O holy apostles,
:you wisely destroyed the works of [[idolatry]].:When you caught all the pagans [[pagan]]s you brought them to the Master:and taught them to glorify the [[Trinity]].
== Source ==
*St. [[Nikolai Velimirovic]], ''The [[Prologue of Ohrid]]'' ==External links==*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=103265 Apostle Erastus of the Seventy], November 10 ([[OCA]])*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=100067 Apostle Erastus of the Seventy], January 4 (OCA)*[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.asp?contentid=284 Erastos, Olympas, Herodion, Sosipatros, Quartus, Tertios, Apostles of the 70] ([[GOARCH]])
[[Category:Biblical Saints|Erastus]][[Category:Saints|Erastus]]
