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Who Was St. Stephen and Why Did He Die?
In Acts, after the early church begins to convert thousands of people to the Christian faith in a matter of days, we meet for a brief time a man by the name of Stephen.
He has a short introduction in Acts 6:5 and becomes the first martyr for the Christian faith just one chapter later.
Who was this man who has such a brief mention?
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Why did Stephen become the first martyr for the Christian faith, and what can the church today learn about this saint from the first century?
First of all, who was Stephen?
Although we don’t have much information presented about Stephen in the sixth chapter of Acts, we can derive the following from the text provided.
Acts 6:1-7: As the Apostles’ numbers grew, because of the size, certain people became overlooked, such as the Gentile widows (opposed to the Hebraic widows).
Seeing a need to delegate roles, the disciples elected the first seven deacons known to the Christian faith. These deacons had to