Men or women Saints engaged in Apostolic labors are often remembered with the title: Equal-to-the-Apostles (especially those Saints who lived after the lives of the Apostles).
Almost all of these women bear the title Equal to the Apostles (as well as the other names listed).
Saints:
- Apphia, co-laborer and wife of St. Philemon of the Seventy
- Chloe, co-laborer with the Apostle Paul
- Helen the Empress
- Junia, co-laborer with St. Andronicus the Seventy
- Lydia of Philippi, (1st European baptized) (here and here)
- Mariamne, sister of the Apostle Philip
- Mary Magdalene, Apostle to the Apostles
- Myrrh-bearers (the Holy,) who proclaimed the Resurrection
- Nana, Queen of Iberia
- Nino of Georgia, Enlightener of Georgia
- Olga of Kiev
- Oraiozili, disciple of the Apostle Andrew, Martyr
- Photini the Martyr; the Samaritan woman
- Polyxene of Spain (&Xanthippe), Disciple of the Apostles (& here)
- Priscilla, wife of the Apostle Aquila
- Thekla the Protomartyr, disciple of the Apostle Paul
- Xanthippe of Spain, Disciples of the Apostles (as example for our lives)
- Euodia and Syntyche
- Mary, Tryphena, Tryphosa, and Persis
- Nympha
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Note:
The Martyrs Inna, Pinna, and Rimma (disciples of St. Andrew) were three men, though often mistaken more recently--by the sound of their names-- for women. Another way of spelling their names were: Innas, Pinnas, and (sometimes) Nirras.