ARTEMAS. - Disciple and collaborator of St. Paul, who in 64 or 65 hypothetically assigned him to Crete to replace Titus, who had been invited to join the Apostle at Nicopolis (Tit. 3:12).

The name 'Αρτεμᾶς, a contracted form of 'Αρτεμᾶς, "gift of Artemis," was widespread in Asia Minor; St. Jerome (De nomin. hebraicis), wrongly regarding it as a Hebrew name, interprets it as "anathematizans seu conturbans." Perhaps A. was from Ephesus, the center of the cult of Artemis.

Later traditions, collected by pseudo-Dorotheus (Biblioth. Maxima, III, Lyon 1677, p. 429), include A. among the 70 (or 72) disciples. The Symax. Constantinop. calls him bishop of Lystra in Lycaonia and sets his feast on June 30. The Roman Martyrology commemorates him on June 21. In the Byzantine menaia, an A. is venerated on April 28, but he seems to be a different person.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: Acta SS. Innii, V, Paris 1867, p. 58; F. X. Pèzel, Die Mitarbeiter des Weltapostels Paulus, Regensburg 1911, pp. 345-47; C. Spicq, S. Paul: Les épîtres pastorales, Paris 1947, p. 301.

Antonino Romeo

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