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A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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November 9 · Bishop

Sts. Philologus and…

Sts. Philologus and Patrobas

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

November 9
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Keep their day. Remember them on November 9 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. By the Greeks on this day, along with Linus, Gaius, and Hennas. Authority: — Romans xvi. 14, 15.] Philologus and Patrobas were Christians of Rome, to whom S. Paul sent his salutations. Philologus, according to Pseudo-Hippolytus, was one of the seventy disciples, and bishops of Sinope. Pseudo-Dorotheus says the same. Patrobas, according to these two authorities, was also one of the seventy, and bishop of Puteoli. They call him Patrobulus.

Feast days

Feast: November 9

Nine days · Free

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Sources & notes

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.