Finding of the Relic of the Holy Protomartyr Stephen
(Feast Day - September 15)
Verses
The finding of Stephen was common to the people,
The great majestic first-struggler of God.
After the First Martyr Stephen had been stoned to death (see Dec. 27), Gamaliel, his teacher, encouraged certain of the Christians to go by night and take up the Saint's body and bury it in his field, which was at a distance of some twenty miles from Jerusalem and was called by his name, "Caphargamala", that is, "the field of Gamala," where Gamaliel himself was later buried.
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