Timothy was born 17 AD in Lystra, Lycaonia, Anatolia in Asia Minor during the Roman Empire. His father was Greek and his mother, Eunice, was Jewish who believes in Jesus Christ. His grandmother, Lois, was also Jewish who also believes in Jesus Christ. Timothy was a first century Christian bishop of Ephesus, who accompanied on parts of his second and third missionary journeys.
Paul reached Derbe and Lystra where there was a disciple named Timothy. The brothers on Lystra and Iconium spoke highly of him, and Paul wanted him to come along with him. On account of the Jews of that region, Paul had him circumcised, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they traveled from city to city, they ahnded on to the people for observance the decisions reached by the apostles and presbyters in Jerusalem. Day after day the churches grew stronger in faith and increased in number (Acts 16:1-5).
They traveled through the Phrygian and Galatian territory because they had prevented by the Holy Spirit from preaching the message in the province of Asia. When they came to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them, so they crossed through Mysia and came down to Troas.
Timothy worked with Paul and Silas and helped found churches, notably in Corinth, Thessalonica, and Philippi. He apparently accompanied Paul to Ephesus and Asia Minor (Acts 19:22; 1 Corinthians 16:10–11). As the presence of his name in the first verses of Colossians, Philemon, and Philippians indicates, he was subsequently associated with Paul's imprisonment at Ephesus. In the Pastoral Epistles he is solely in charge of the Christians at Ephesus, possibly the site of his release from prison as chronicled in Hebrews 13:23 (Britannica, 2018).
According to the Acts of Timothy, it stated that in they year 97, Timothy tried to halt a procession in honor of the goddess, Diana, by preaching the gospel. The angry pagans beat him, dragged him through the streets, and stoned him to death (Wikipedia, 2018).
Timothy was venerated in Roman Catholic Church, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion Church, and Lutheran Church. According to Eastern Christianity (Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic), his feast day is on January 22, while according to Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism, his feast day is on January 26. Saint Timothy is a patron saint of people invoked against stomach and intestinal disorders.
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