Apostles Jason and Sosipater of the Seventy, Virgin Cercyra, and those with them

Jason of Tarsus and Sosipater of Achaia are named by Paul in his Letter to the Romans as his kinsmen. Tradition says Jason became bishop of Tarsus and Sosipater bishop of Iconium, and that they went west to the island of Corfu (Kerkyra), where they built a church of St Stephen and made converts.

Falsely accused before the island's king, they were imprisoned and there converted seven robbers. The king's daughter, Kerkyra, became a Christian, and according to the Life, survived the fire, bears and other trials before being killed with arrows. The king drowned while pursuing Christians. Under the next king the apostles were thrown into a boiling cauldron and came out unharmed, and the king himself believed and was baptized. They died in old age.