TIMON, one of the seven first Deacons chosen by the Apostles, Acts vi. 5. Nothing particular is known of him. The Greeks honour four of the first Deacons on July 28.: They say particularly of Timon, that being made Bishop of Bostra in Arabia, he was burnt by the Command of the Infidels. The Latins place the Death of Timon on April 19. at Corinth. They tell us, that he preached for some time at Berea, and then came to Corinth, where the Jews and Pagans threw him into the Fire; and seeing that by a Miracle he escaped from thence, they fixed him upon a Cross. Dorotheus makes him sometimes Bishop of Bostra, and sometime of Tyre and Sidon. See Bollandus, on April 19.
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