The Holy Apostle Carpus & St. Augustine of Canterbury (May 26)

The Holy Apostle Carpus, One of the Seventy. 

Carpus was one of the Seventy Apostles. He was a follower and companion of the Apostle Paul by whom he was appointed as bishop of Varna in Thrace. He also preached the Gospel on Crete where he received St. Dionysius the Areopagite in his home. St. Dionysius testifies that Carpus was a man with an exceptionally pure mind, meekness and innocence and that the Lord Jesus, with His angels, appeared to him in a vision and that he never began the Divine Liturgy that he did not have a heavenly vision beforehand. Enduring many assaults for the Name of Christ, he finally suffered at the hands of the unbelieving Jews and was killed and, with his soul, took up habitation in the kingdom of God to delight eternally gazing upon the Lord in glory.

Our Holy Father Augustine of Canterbury, Enlightener of England.

St Augustine, a Benedictine monk who is considered to be the 'Apostle to the English' and a founder of the English Church. He was appointed as the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 598 and was revered as Saint shortly after his death in 604.