Syntyche

SYNTYCHE, mention’d by St. Paul Phil. iv. 2.to the Philippians, was a Woman illustrious for her Vertue and good Works, and who was, as it were, at the Head of the Church at Philippi,¹ with another Woman call’d Euodias. ‘Tis thought St. Paul speaks of ‘em when he says, Help those Women which laboured with me in the Gospel. But some Difficulties or Disturbances had happen’d between them, and therefore the Apostle exhorts them, that they be of the same Mind in the Lord. We know none of the Particulars of their Lives. Syntyche is set down in the Number of the Saints on July 22, and the Martyrologies insinuate, that her Body rests at Philippi in Macedonia.

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