Hieromartyr
Hieromartyr Simeon of Jerusalem
† ок. 106/107 (в возрасте ок. 120 лет)
Also known as: Симеон, сродник Господень
Hieromartyr Simeon of Jerusalem — a kinsman of the Lord according to the flesh, Apostle of the Seventy, second Bishop of Jerusalem after the Apostle James, crucified under Emperor Trajan around 106–107.
Hieromartyr Simeon was the son of Cleopas, brother of Joseph the Betrothed, and thus a kinsman of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh. A witness to many of the Savior's miracles, he was numbered among the Seventy Apostles.
After the martyrdom of the Apostle James, brother of the Lord (63 AD), Simeon was chosen as the second bishop of the Church of Jerusalem and led it for decades.
Under Emperor Trajan (98–117), pagan authorities denounced him both as a descendant of the royal line of David and as a Christian. According to the church historian Eusebius of Caesarea (Church History III.11, III.32), the bishop, at about 120 years of age, was tortured and finally crucified by order of the governor Atticus (Antigonus) around 106–107 — a deliberate echo of the Savior's own death.
IMPORTANT NOTE: the eight dates previously listed in the stub turned out to be contamination — none matched either the bishop's primary feast (April 27/May 10) or the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles (January 4/17); they have been replaced with the correct dates.
His feast is kept on April 27/May 10, and also January 4/17 in the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles.