Feast of St. Onesimus

 

Who?

St. Onesimus was a slave...to Saints Philemon and his wife, Saint Apphia. He ran away after stealing from his owners to try to find St. Paul - which wasn't hard to do, since he was in prison. St. Paul converted Oneimus and then sent him back to Philemon to apologize, with a letter written by Paul - now known as the "Epistle to Philemon".

Philemon freed Onesimus, who returned to St. Paul and became an apostle. He was martyred in 95 A.D.