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St. Stephen the Martyr

There is no doubt that St. Stephen was one of the seventy-two disciples of Christ; for, immediately after the descent of the Holy Spiit, we find him perfectly instructed in the Christian teachings.

The First Deacon

After the Ascension seven Deacons were chosen for the Church, and the first one named was “Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost”. His ministry was very fruitful, for he was “full of grace and fortitude”, and “did great wonders and signs among the people”. When the authorities found they could not withstand his arguments, they bribed witnesses, as in the case of Jesus Himself, to charge him with blasphemy against Moses and against God.

Upon this false charge he was dragged before the Sanhedrin, the highest Jewish court, and, after the ac. accusation had been read, Caiaphas, the High Priest, ordered him to make his defense. St. Stephen showed great courage and constancy, and with fiery eloquence reminded them of the prophecies, beginning with the books of Moses, concerning the Messiah, and how the sacrifices of the Temple were a figure, well understood by the Jewish doctors of the law, of a better and more perfect Sacrifice, which he showed to have been completed in the Sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross.

The First Martyr

Seeing their unbelief depicted on their countenances, St. Stephen the accused them in burning words of having rejected and slain those Prophets “who foretold the Just One; of Whom”, he said, “you are now the betrayers and murderers”. They were inflamed with anger, and gnashed their teeth against him. But St. Stephen was not frightened. “Filled with the Holy Ghost and looking up to heaven, he cried out, ‘Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.

No longer able to contain themselves for fury and revenge, “Crying out with a loud voice, and stopping their ears, with one accord they ran violently upon him. And casting him forth without the city they stoned him”. “Falling on his knees he cried with a loud voice saying: Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this he fell asleep in the Lord.” (Acts of the Apostles: chapters 6 and 7.) Such was the death of the first Martyr, “the Proto martyr”, as St. Stephen is called.

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