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Paul lived with Priscilla and Aquila for approximately 18 months. Then the couple started out to accompany Paul when he proceeded to Syria, but stopped at Ephesus in the Roman province of Asia, now part of modern Turkey. In 1 Corinthians 16:19, Paul passes on the greetings of Priscilla and Aquila to their friends in Corinth, indicating that the ...
13 Aquila, Priscilla, and Apollos (Commemoration) W – LCMS; Martin Luther's face and hands cast at his death. 14 Cyril, monk, 869; Methodius, bishop, 885; missionaries to the Slavs (Commemoration) W – ELCA Valentine, martyr, 270 (Commemoration) R – LCMS; 15 Philemon and Onesimus (Commemoration) W – LCMS
Priscilla and her husband Aquila. She and her husband are mentioned six times in the Bible, as missionary partners with the Apostle Paul. They were also partners in the craft of tentmaking. The author of Acts states that they were refugees who came first to Corinth when the Emperor Claudius expelled all Jews from Rome.
Santi Aquila e Priscilla is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to saints Aquila and Priscilla in the quartiere Portuense (Q.XI) of Rome, on via Pietro Blaserna. [1] The church was consecrated on November 15, 1992. In 1994, John Paul II designated it as a cardinal's titular church.
Though some legends suggest otherwise, scholars do not believe she is the Priscilla (Prisca) of the New Testament couple Priscilla and Aquila, who were friends of the Apostle Paul. [1] Saint Prisca and the lion, in a print by Adriaen Collaert, c. 1600. She is honored, especially in England, as a child martyr. January 18 is her feast day.
And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome); and he came to them. [5] The name Aquila is a Latin word. J. R.
8 Priscilla and Aquila, Coworkers of the Apostle Paul; 11 Benedict of Nursia, Monastic, 543; 14 Argula von Grumbach, Scholar and Church Reformer, c.1554; 17 William White, Bishop, 1836; 19 Macrina of Caesarea, Monastic and Teacher, 379. 20 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman, Social Reformers
Apollos is regarded as a saint by several Christian churches, including the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, which hold a commemoration for him, together with saints Aquila and Priscilla, on 13 February. Apollos is considered one of the 70 apostles [20] and his feast day is December 8 in the Eastern Orthodox church.