St. Barnabas 17. First Missionary Journey.       The Holy Spirit’s new call upon St. Barnabas’ life unfolds like this: “Now in the Church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Symeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul” ( Ac 13:1 ).       Notice, again, that St. Luke’s listing of prophets and teachers begin with Barnabas, presumably as lead.       Symeon, also called Niger (Latin for “black skin”), is mentioned next. Some think this is the same Simon of Cyrene (in Africa) who helped carry the Lord’s cross [1] ( Lk23:26 ), although the spelling is different. But the Eastern Church tradition is that it is Symeon, son of Cleopas, younger brother of St. Joseph, one of the 70, second Bishop of Jerusalem from 67 to 107 AD, and who died a martyr. [2]       Lucius of Cyrene some believe to be St. Luke [3], again with d...