The Epistle to the Colossians is the twelfth book of the New Testament. It was written, according to the text, by Paul the Apostle and Timothy, and addressed to the church in Colossae, a small Phrygian city near Laodicea and approximately 100 miles (160 km) from Ephesus in Asia Minor.
The last page of Colossians in the Codex Claromontanus in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Ruined building in Colossae
Schematic of Colossians, William Brooks Taylor (1910)
Timothy or Timothy of Ephesus was an early Christian evangelist and the first Christian bishop of Ephesus, who tradition relates died around the year AD 97.
Rembrandt's Timothy and his grandmother, 1648
Statue of Saint Timothy at Saint Timothy's Church in The Villages, Florida
Icon of Saint Timothy in an Orthodox parish in the United States