Abibon

{{short description|1st-century Christian saint}} {{Refimprove|date=December 2023}} {{use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox saint |honorific_prefix= Saint |name= Abibon |image= |imagesize= |caption= |titles= |birth_date= 1st century AD |birth_place= |death_date= |death_place= |feast_day= 2 December |venerated_in= Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |major_shrine= |attributes= |patronage= |issues= |suppressed_date= |prayer= }}

'''Abibon''' ({{fl|1st century AD}}), also known as '''Abibas''', was the son of Gamaliel, the teacher of Paul the Apostle. He and his father are regarded as saints of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. The finding of their relics is celebrated as a feast day on 3 August.<ref>{{cite web |title=Saint of the Day – 3 August – The Finding of the Relics of St Stephen, Protomartyr. |url=https://anastpaul.com/2022/08/03/saint-of-the-day-3-august-the-finding-of-the-relics-of-st-stephen-protomartyr/ |website=Ana St Paul |language=en |date=3 August 2022}}</ref> Other days of commemoration are observed in their honour regionally; for example 2{{nbsp}}December is especially celebrated in Pisa.

== Life == Not much is known about Abibon's life. He was the second son of Gamaliel, a leading member of the Sanhedrin in the early first century. He is said by some sources to have been baptized with his father and his brother Nicodemus.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LP4UAAAAQAAJ&q=Abda&pg=PA78 Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924. p. 4]</ref> After being baptized alongside his father he died at the age of twenty of natural causes.<ref>Paton James Gloag, ''A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on The Acts of the Apostles'', Volume 1, page 191, citing Photius, ''Cod. 171'' (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1870).</ref>

== Relics == In 415, Abibon's body was found alongside those of Saint Stephen, Nicodemus, and his father in Capergamela, a town twenty miles from Jerusalem.<ref>{{cite web |title=Finding of the relics of Righteous Saint Νikόdēmos |website=Orthodox Church in America |url=https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/08/02/102182-finding-of-the-relics-of-righteous-saint-nikodemos}}</ref>

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