# Rufus And Zosimus, Two Pious Christians, Beheaded At Philippi In Macedonia, For The Faith In Jesus Christ, A. D. 109.

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Rufus and Zosimus were disciples of Christ and
his apostles, and had also been instrumental in
founding and building up the church of God among
the Jews and the Gentiles.

Especially conspicuous is Rufus, from the greetings
of the Apostle Paul to the church at Rome, in
which he includes Rufus, not merely as a common
member of the same, but as a distinguished, yea
chosen person, for he says: “Salute Rufus chosen
in the Lord, and his mother and mine.” Rom.
16:13.

This Rufus and the aforementioned Zosimus,
both pious and upright Christians, together with
many of their fellow-believers, were put to death
for the faith, in the city of Philippi in Macedonia.
Some write that both were beheaded in the days of
of Emperor Trajan, A. D. 109. Compare what
A. Mellinus adduces in Het groot Christen Martelærs-bœk,
fol. 19, col. 4, from Polycarpo ad Philippens,
with that which J. Gysius has noted in Hist.
Mart., fol. 15, col. 3.



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