The apostles desirous to have the poor regarded for their bodily sustenance, as also careful themselves to dispense the word of God, the food of the soul, appoint the office of deaconship to seven chosen men: of whom Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, is one: who is taken of those whom he confounded in disputing, and after falsely accused of blasphemy against the law and the temple.
Anno Domini 34.