Amplias

AMPLIAS, whom St. Paul speaks of Rom. xvi. 8.in his Epistle to the Romans, was one whom he particularly loved. It is not certainly known who he was, nor what was done; by him but the Greeks say, that he was ordained Bishop of Odyssopolis in Mœsia by St. Andrew, was an apostolical Person, at least one of the seventy two Disciples, and had the honour of Martyrdom. They observe his Festival on the 31st of October.

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