The life of Carpus and Alphaeus
He preached also in Crete, where he received Dionysius the Areopagite into his house. Dionysius wrote of him afterward that his mind was uncommonly pure and his temper meek, that the Lord appeared to him once with His angels, and that he would not begin the Liturgy until something had been shown him from heaven. He was set over the church at Beroea, where he brought many who had served idols to baptism, bore much trouble for it, and was killed there at the last.
Alphaeus also was of the Seventy. He came from Capernaum in Galilee, and he was the father of the apostles James and Matthew.
