St. Carpus October 13

St. Carpus

Feastday: October 13

Death: 1st century

Confessor mentioned by St. Paul in one of his letters. St. Paul stated that he had left his cloak with Carpus. Greek tradition makes him a bishop.

Carpus of Beroea of the Seventy Disciples is commemorated by the Church on May 26 with Alphaeus, and on January 4 with the Seventy.

In his second Epistle to Timothy (2 Timothy 4:13), Paul requests, "The phelonion that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books." Carpus was bishop of Beroea (or Verria) in Macedonia.