Event Factoid: Deaconries were established for the men and women who emulated
Paul, patriarch of
Antioch's zeal and earnestness by serving and
giving.
Sources:
E. W Brooks, trans.,Lives of the Eastern Saints II,Patrologia Orientalis 18.4 (1924), https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaorient18pariuoft#page/n521/mode/2up, p: 675.