Apostle Cleopas (1st c.)
Commemorated on October 30
He is numbered among the Seventy. On the day of the
Resurrection, Cleopas and St Luke were walking on the road from Jerusalem to
Emmaus when the Risen Christ appeared to them, as recounted in the twenty-fourth
chapter of St Luke's Gospel.
The Gospel account does not name St Cleopas' companion, but the holy tradition
of the Church tells us that it was St Luke himself, and thus that the story is a
first-hand account.