St. Philip

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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September 13 · Martyr

St. Philip

St. Philip

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

September 13
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

May 3
Verified · General Roman Calendar

Represents

Martyr

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. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on September 13 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Usuardus, Notker, Roman Martyrology, &c. By the Greeks on Dec. 24. Authority: — The wholly fabulous Acts of S. Eugenia, see Sept, n, SS. Protus and Hyacinth,] HE romance of S. Eugenia, the damsel who ran away from her father, prefect of Egypt, has been already briefly given. It is fable from beginning to end, and it is more than questionable that such a person ever existed. Philip, her father, who from being prefect became also Bishop of Alexandria, and suffered, or is pretended to have suffered, under Galienus, is commemorated in the Latin martyrologies on this day. The Emperor sent Perennius or Terentius to succeed him in the office of prefect, with orders to execute Philip, but when Perennius found that Philip was protected by the people of Alexandria in a body, he hired assassins who feigned themselves Christians and felled him in church. sept. «3.] -S’. Macrobius and Others. 185

Feast days

Feast: May 3
Traditional: September 13

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: Rubens apostel philippus.jpg · Peter Paul Rubens · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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.

Image: Peter Paul Rubens, Wikimedia Commons (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.