PARMENAS, one of the seven first Deacons who were chosen with St. Stephen1. The Scripture gives them all seven a great Commendation, saying, they were Men of honest Report, full of the Holy Ghost and Wisdom. St. Epiphanius thinks2, that they were of the Number of the seventy Disciples. As to Parmenas, we have nothing certain either as to his Life or Death. The Greeks say he fell asleep before the Eyes of the Apostles. Adon places his Martyrdom at Philippi in Macedonia the 23d of January. The Martyrology takes notice of his Death under Trajan, in the same City.
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