Stachys

STACHYS, a Disciple of St. Paul’s, of whom he makes honourable mention in his Rom. xvi. 9. Niceph. Calist. l. 2. c. 39.Epistle to the Romans. We know of none of the Particulars of his Life that can be rely’d on. Nicephorus Calistus assures us, that St. Andrew came and preached for some Time at Byzantium, afterwards call’d Constantinople; but being obliged to leave it, he ordain’d St. Stachys for Bishop there. The Menæa of the Greeks set down the Feast of St. Stachys on the 31st of October; in which they are follow’d by the Roman Martyrology, which also makes him Bishop of Byzantium, and which assures us, ‘tis to him that St. Paul makes his Recommendations in the Epistle to the Romans, and whome he calls his well-beloved. The Greeks give him the Title of an Apostle, and put him among the seventy-two Disciples. But we find nothing of all this in any Authors of greater Antiquity than Nicephorus.

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