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| | THE CHOOSING OF THE SEVENTY HOLY APOSTLES |
 | | Dorotheus came once more to the city of Odessus polis, where he was seized by Julian’s princes and suffered many tortures in his very old age for confessing Christ, and died as a martyr at the age of one hundred and seventy. |
 | | This saintly Dorotheus speaks of the seventy apostles and disciples of Christ, many of whom were bishops among different peoples, while others served as preachers, whom the divine Paul mentions in tile salutations in his epistles. |
 | | The saintly and most-blessed Dorotheus, while he was bishop of the church of Tyre, wrote about them and left his writings to the church, in order to commemorate the holy apostles, about whom even Paul wrote, saying: they were servants of God before us. |
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