Premium Only Content

Episode 472: St. Timothy
Bishop of Ephesus and Martyr
(�97)
Saint Timothy was a convert of Saint Paul, born at Lystra in Asia Minor. His mother was a daughter of Israel, but his father was a pagan, and though Timothy had read the Scriptures from his childhood, he had never been circumcised. On the arrival of Saint Paul at Lystra the youthful Timothy, with his mother and grandmother, eagerly embraced the faith. Seven years later, when the Apostle again visited the country, the boy had grown into manhood. His good heart, his austerities and zeal had won the esteem of all around him, and holy men were prophesying great things of the fervent youth. Saint Paul at once saw his fitness for the work of an evangelist, and Timothy was ordained a priest. From that time on he was the constant and much-beloved fellow-worker of the Apostle.
In company with Saint Paul he visited the cities of Asia Minor and Greece, once hastening on ahead as a trusted messenger, at another time lingering behind to confirm in the faith a recently founded church. Eventually he was made the first Bishop of Ephesus; and there he received the two epistles of his master which bear his name, the first written from Macedonia and the second from Rome, where Saint Paul from his prison expresses his longing desire to see his "dearly beloved son," once more, if possible, before his death. It is not certain whether Saint Timothy arrived in Rome in time, but devotion to Saint Timothy has always been strong in Rome, which seems to argue for his presence at the martyrdom of his spiritual father.
Saint Timothy was of a tender and affectionate disposition, and certainly found his role in the idolatrous city of Ephesus difficult to sustain. Saint Paul, when he writes to Timothy, then a tested servant of God and a bishop advancing in years, addresses him as he would his own child, and seems most anxious about his forcefulness in his demanding role. His disciple's health was fragile, and Saint Paul counsels him to "take a little wine for his digestion." Saint Timothy is the "Angel of the Church of Ephesus" of the Apocalypse, its bishop whom Our Lord, too, exhorted to remember his original faith and piety.
Not many years after the death of Saint Paul, Timothy, who had surely profited from these counsels, won a martyr's crown at Ephesus, when on a feast day of the goddess Diana, whose temple stood in that city, he entered into the ungovernable crowd to calm it, exhorting these souls, deprived of the light of truth, to renounce vain worship and embrace Christianity. Wild with idolatrous passion, a pagan struck down the bishop of the Christians, thus freeing him to join his beloved spiritual father in the realm of the Blessed.
-
LIVE
TimcastIRL
43 minutes agoStock Market BLOODBATH After China Places 34% Tariff On US, Trump HOLDS FIRM | Timcast IRL
22,839 watching -
LIVE
Glenn Greenwald
2 hours agoProf. John Mearsheimer on Israel's Destruction of Gaza, Trump Admin Attacks on Universities & Speech, Yemen Bombings, Tariffs & Competition with China; Plus: Q&A with Glenn | SYSTEM UPDATE #434
12,653 watching -
55:58
BonginoReport
3 hours agoCan Trump Make TikTok Great Again? (Ep. 20) - Nightly Scroll with Hayley Caronia - 04/04/25
69.2K33 -
LIVE
Nerdrotic
5 hours ago $11.74 earnedPost-Apocalyptic Woke Hollywood, MineCRAP, CinemaCONNED - Friday Night Tights 348, Chris Gore & Rags
7,689 watching -
LIVE
FusedAegisTV
5 hours agoRumble Smackdown! #001 Street Fighter 6 $500 Online Tournament
125 watching -
Sarah Westall
2 hours agoThe Greatest Financial Crime in History: How Globalist Central Bankers Did It w/ James Patrick
591 -
LIVE
IamTyrantt
1 hour agoTGIF! HIGH ENERGY VIBES!
32 watching -
13:19
China Uncensored
2 hours agoHow Trump's New Tariffs Are CRUSHING China's Economy
3432 -
1:23:47
Kim Iversen
5 hours agoAre Patriots Are Being Deceived? Why Trump and Elon Might Be the Globalists' Greatest Weapons
75.1K74 -
1:57:34
vivafrei
6 hours agoCanada: Fentanyl Capital of the World w/ Sam Cooper! Pierre Poilievre Listening to Viva w/ Pleb!
78.7K54