St. Papias of Hierapolis
Feast day: February 22
Birth: 70
Death: 120/ 155
Bishop Papias of Hieropolis in Phrygia, Asia Minor. who had spoken with those who had known the Apostles, including Saint Polycarp, Little is known about him beyond the fragments of his own writings and the statements of St. Irenaeus that he was a companion of St. Polycarp and "a man of long ago." His own work, Expositions on the Oracles of the Lord, is preserved only through quotations found in Irenaeus and Eusebius of Caesarea.
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