Sts. Priscilla and Aquila

Who they were

Priscilla and Aquila appear six times across the New Testament and never once apart: a married couple, Jewish tentmakers expelled from Rome by Claudius's edict, who met Paul at Corinth in the shop, since it was the same trade, housed him, worked beside him, and crossed the sea with him.

Their most instructive scene is at Ephesus. Hearing the brilliant Apollos preach with fire and a gap in his knowledge, they took him aside, privately and at home and together, and explained the way of God to him more accurately. The Church has never stopped citing it as the model of correction: accurate, kind, over dinner, and it worked, because Apollos became a pillar. Paul's farewell to them in Romans is the couple's epitaph in advance. They risked their necks for his life, and a church met in their house in every city they touched. Scripture names Priscilla first more often than not, which is worth noticing and letting stand.

Why people turn to Sts. Priscilla and Aquila

Couples who serve together: the deacon couple, the team that runs the parish's hardest week, the pair who do the funeral luncheons. Where Louis and Zelie Martin are the family holiness pair, these two are the working partnership pair. Hosts and small business couples by the shop and the open house.

How to ask their intercession

As a couple, aloud, for the work you share. And before a correction that has to land, borrow their method: privately, kindly, accurately, together.