{"id":9146,"date":"2025-10-27T05:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/?p=9146"},"modified":"2025-10-27T05:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:19:11","slug":"archdeacon-and-protomartyr-saint-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/archdeacon-and-protomartyr-saint-stephen\/","title":{"rendered":"Archdeacon and Protomartyr Saint Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mh63jxl4-05def7a6a7b5c922b7ec28d68f47e03f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Archdeacon and Protomartyr Saint Stephen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Archdeacon and Protomartyr Stephen was the eldest of the seven deacons, appointed by the Apostles themselves, on Tikmet 17, to oversee charity in the early Jerusalem church, according to the \u201cBook of Acts.\u201d Therefore, he is called \u201carchdeacon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was a Hellenistic Jew, filled with faith and the Holy Spirit, who performed miracles and preached boldly. It was here his opposers accused him in falsity which lead to his trial before the Sanhedrin, and death by stoning. He has received martyrdom on his birthday Tir 1st, which he vision Lord Jesus standing at God&#8217;s right hand. He saw the Holy Trinity in His Glory in the heavens.<\/p>\n<p>May Saint Stephen\u2019s prayer, intercession and mediation be with us; Amen!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archdeacon and Protomartyr Stephen was the eldest of the seven deacons, appointed by the Apostles themselves, on Tikmet 17, to oversee charity in the early Jerusalem church, according to the \u201cBook of Acts.\u201d Therefore, he is called \u201carchdeacon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feasts","category-holy-scriptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9151,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146\/revisions\/9151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}