The life of Evodus and Onesiphorus
He governed that church for some decades, and wrote of the Mother of God and of the Christian life, though his writings were later destroyed in a time of persecution. Accounts differ on how his life ended, some holding that he died peacefully after his long service and others that he was martyred; even where martyrdom is affirmed, sources disagree on which emperor's reign it fell under.
Onesiphorus, for his part, is remembered by name in one of Paul's own letters, who wrote gratefully of how Onesiphorus had sought him out in Rome and served him at Ephesus without shame for Paul's imprisonment. Onesiphorus became bishop first at Colophon and later served the church at Corinth. He died a martyr at Parium, on the shore of the Hellespont, while preaching to the pagans of that city, said to have been bound to wild horses and torn apart for his faith.
