Apostle of the Seventy
Apostle of the Seventy Hermin (Hermas, Hermes of Dalmatia)
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Also known as: Ерм, Ермий Далматский
Apostle of the Seventy Hermas (Hermin, Hermes) of Dalmatia — a Roman Christian mentioned by the Apostle Paul in Romans 16:14, who according to tradition became Bishop of Dalmatia; the identification of the name "Hermin" with the original "Hermas/Hermes" is not fully certain, but is supported by transliteration variants found in Orthodox sources.
Identified with "Hermas" (Ερμᾶς), whom the Apostle Paul greets in the Epistle to the Romans (16:14): "Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them." According to the Byzantine list of Pseudo-Dorotheus of Tyre, he became Bishop of Dalmatia, where he preached and performed healings, and according to the Greek Synaxarion, died peacefully "after many labors and sorrows."
IMPORTANT CAVEAT: both pravenc.ru and drevo-info.ru explicitly note a long-standing confusion in Byzantine hagiography between this Hermas of Dalmatia and a DIFFERENT, separate Apostle of the Seventy with the same name "Hermas" — Hermas of Philippopolis, author of the early Christian work "The Shepherd," also mentioned by Paul in the same verse, Romans 16:14; the feast days and biographical details of these two namesakes are frequently conflated even in authoritative sources, so some ambiguity is irreducible. The form "Hermin" in the original database entry is not the primary canonical form (usually "Hermas" or "Hermes"), but occurs as a transliteration variant.
NOTE ON THE IMAGE: the entry's original image was captioned "Hermin Joseph," which almost certainly refers to the Catholic mystic Hermann Joseph of Steinfeld (12th-13th c.) — a completely different person with no connection to the Orthodox Apostle of the Seventy; the actually attached file turned out to be a generic silhouette placeholder, not a portrait.