Apostles of the Seventy Herodion (Rodion), Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufus, Phlegon and Hermes

These six men are all named in the New Testament and counted among the Seventy apostles sent out by Jesus. Agabus is the prophet of Acts who foretold a great famine in the time of Claudius and, at Caesarea, bound his own hands and feet with Paul's belt to show that Paul would be handed over in Jerusalem. Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon and Hermes are greeted by Paul in his letter to the Romans, and Herodion is named there as his kinsman.

According to tradition, Herodion, from Tarsus, was made bishop of Patras by Peter and Paul and died after being beaten and stabbed by a crowd. The Life names Rufus as bishop of Thebes, Asyncritus of Hyrcania, Phlegon of Marathon in Thrace and Hermes in Dalmatia. These later details come from tradition rather than from the New Testament.