Righteous Persis

DOUBLE CORRECTION: (1) category changed from apostle_of_70 to "righteous" — thorough checking found no inclusion of Persis in any known list of the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles (all known groups drawn from Romans 16 names — Andronicus/Junia, May 17; Stachys/Amplias/Urban/Narcissus/Apelles/Aristobulus, Oct 31; Patrobas/Hermas/Linus/Gaius/Philologus, Nov 5; Herodion/Agabus/Rufus/Asyncritus/Phlegon/Hermes, Nov 8; Olympas/Rodion/Sosipater/Erastus/Quartus, Nov 10 — do not include Persis by name); in Orthodox tradition the title "Apostle of the 70" is applied only to men; (2) the previous date "November 5" was not confirmed — that is the date of a different group (Patrobas et al.) that does not include Persis; feast_days is honestly left empty.

CRITICAL IMAGE NOTE: the sole image has been removed — inspection showed it to be a modern photograph of the ruins of Persepolis (the ancient Achaemenid Persian capital in Iran, with stone columns and reliefs) — entirely unrelated to the apostolic-era Christian woman Persis; clear contamination from the coincidental overlap between the name "Persis" and the place name "Persia/Persepolis."

Persis (Greek Περσίς, "Persian woman") was a Christian woman of the apostolic age, mentioned by St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans: "Greet Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord" (Romans 16:12). Nothing else reliable is known of her — Scripture gives no further detail on her origin or later life. She appears to have been one of Paul's active co-workers in the early Roman Christian community, alongside Tryphaena, Tryphosa, and other women named in the same chapter.