{"id":2055,"date":"2013-01-20T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/church-remembers-st-pauls-companions-sts-timothy-and-titus\/"},"modified":"2013-01-20T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T13:13:00","slug":"church-remembers-st-pauls-companions-sts-timothy-and-titus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2013\/01\/church-remembers-st-pauls-companions-sts-timothy-and-titus\/","title":{"rendered":"Church remembers St. Paul’s companions, Sts. Timothy and Titus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Denver, Colo., Jan 20, 2013 \/ 06:13 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- On Jan. 26, the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, close companions of the Apostle Paul and bishops of the Catholic Church in its earliest days.<\/p>\n

\tBoth men received letters from St. Paul, which are included in the New Testament.
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\n\tEastern Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians also venerate the saints, but do not combine their commemorations. Instead, the Byzantine tradition remembers St. Titus on Aug. 25 and St. Timothy on Jan. 22.
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\n\tPope Benedict XVI discussed these early bishops during a general audience on Dec. 13, 2006, noting \u201ctheir readiness to take on various offices\u201d in \u201cfar from easy\u201d circumstances. Both saints, the Pope said, \u201cteach us to serve the Gospel with generosity, realizing that this also entails a service to the Church herself.\u201d
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\n\tThe son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father, Timothy came from Lystra in present-day Turkey. His mother, Eunice, and his grandmother, Lois, are known to have joined the Church, and Timothy himself is described as a student of Sacred Scripture from his youth.<\/p>\n

\tAfter St. Paul\u2019s visit to Timothy\u2019s home region of Lycaonia, around the year 51, the young man joined the apostle and accompanied him in his travels. After religious strife forced Paul to leave the city of Berea, Timothy remained to help the local church. Paul later sent him to Thessalonica to help the Church during a period of persecution.
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\n\tThe two met up again in Corinth, and Timothy eventually journeyed to Macedonia on Paul\u2019s behalf. Problems in the Corinthian Church brought Timothy back for a time, after which he joined Paul and accompanied the apostle in subsequent travels.<\/p>\n

\tLike Paul, Timothy endured a period of imprisonment in the course of his missionary work. His release is mentioned in the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews.
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\n\tAround the year 64, Timothy became the first bishop of the Church of Ephesus. During that same year, he received the first of two surviving letters from St. Paul. The second, written the next year, urges Timothy to visit St. Paul in Rome, where he was imprisoned before his martyrdom.<\/p>\n

\tAncient sources state that St. Timothy followed his mentor in dying as a martyr for the faith. In the year 93, during his leadership of the Church in Ephesus, he took a stand against the worship of idols and was consequently killed by a mob. The pagan festival he was protesting was held Jan. 22, and this date was preserved as St. Timothy\u2019s memorial in the Christian East.
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\n\tIn contrast with Timothy\u2019s partial Jewish descent and early Biblical studies, St. Titus \u2013 who was born into a pagan family \u2013 is said to have studied Greek philosophy and poetry in his early years. But he pursued a life of virtue, and purportedly had a prophetic dream that caused him to begin reading the Hebrew Scriptures.
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\n\tAccording to tradition, Titus journeyed to Jerusalem and witnessed the preaching of Christ during the Lord\u2019s ministry on earth. Only later, however \u2013 after the conversion of St. Paul and the beginning of his ministry \u2013 did Titus receive baptism from the apostle, who called the pagan convert his \u201ctrue child in our common faith.\u201d
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\n\tSt. Paul was not only Titus\u2019 spiritual father, but also depended on his convert as an assistant and interpreter. Titus accompanied Paul to the Apostolic Council of Jerusalem during the year 51, and was later sent to the Corinthian Church on two occasions. After the end of Paul\u2019s first imprisonment in Rome, the apostle ordained Titus as the Bishop of Crete.
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\n\tPaul sent his only surviving letter to Titus around the year 64, giving instructions in pastoral ministry to his disciple as he prepared to meet up with him in the Greek city of Nicopolis. Titus evangelized the region of Dalmatia in modern Croatia before returning to Crete.
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\n\tTitus is credited with leading the Church of Crete well into his 90s, overturning paganism and promoting the faith through his prayers and preaching. Unlike St. Timothy, St. Titus was not martyred, but died peacefully in old age.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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