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Agabus , in the New Testament, prophet who foretold the famine in the time of Claudius Caesar and the imprisonment of Paul.

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Agabus One of several Christian prophets resident in Jerusalem who visited the Church at Antioch and predicted a severe famine (Acts 11: 28) during the reign of the emperor Claudius (possibly 46 CE). Agabus also prophesied Paul's imminent imprisonment (Acts 21: 10).

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Agabus, St, a prophet mentioned in Acts (11: 28 and 21: 10). In the E. Church he is held to be one of the seventy mentioned in Lk. 10: 1. Feast day, in the E., 8 Apr.; in the W., 13 Feb.

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