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Slave of the Colossian Christians Saint Philemon and Saint Apphia.
Committed a theft and fled from punishment to Rome where he hid with Saint
Paul. Paul converted him, then sent him home carrying the canonical Letter
to Philemon. He was freed.
Died: c.90
Name Meaning: helpful; profitable
Reading
Therefore, although I have the full right in Christ to order you to do
what is proper, I rather urge you out of love, being as I am, Paul, an old
man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus. I urge you on behalf of my
child Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment, who was
once useless to you but is now useful to both you and me. I am sending
him, that is, my own heart, back to you. I should have liked to retain him
for myself so that he might serve me on your behalf in my imprisonment for
the gospel, but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so
that the good you do might not be forced but voluntary.
Philemon 1:8-14
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