Apostle of the Seventy Olympas (Olympan), Apostle of the Seventy

IMPORTANT INTERNAL-INCONSISTENCY CORRECTION: the card previously contained a verification_note recording that a duplicate slug olympus_of_seventy had been merged into it, concluding he belonged among the Apostles of the Seventy ("beheaded together with Peter and Paul under Nero"), but the category/title fields were never updated at that time and still read "martyr" — this discrepancy has been fixed, bringing the category into line with the conclusion already reached. DATE ALSO CORRECTED: the previously listed "July 12" was not confirmed by any source; the correct, consistently attested date is November 10/23.

Apostle Olympas (Olympan) is named by Paul among those greeted in the Epistle to the Romans (16:15) as one of the Seventy Apostles. Tradition holds he became a companion of the Apostle Peter and followed him to Rome, where — on the same day and hour that Peter was crucified — Olympas was beheaded by the sword on Emperor Nero's order, sharing martyrdom together with his fellow Apostle of the Seventy, Herodion (Rodion).

His feast is kept on November 10/23.