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July 22 · Martyr

St. Theophilus the…

St. Theophilus the Younger

Traditional feast

July 22
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

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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.

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How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on July 22 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. By the Greeks on Jan. 30th. Authority — Mention in the Menology of the Emperor Basil II., and the contempoiary Chronographia of S. Theophanes.J Theophilus of Constantinople, of senatorial rank, was sent by the emperor Constantine and the empress 1 Legenda Monastica, and other Poems.” Oxford: Mowbray, i8ja. Irene against an Arab fleet which menaced Cyprus. All the Byzantine ships took to flight on meeting the fleet off Cyprus, with the exception of the vessel of Theophilus, which was surrounded by the enemy, and Theophilus was taken captive. He was kept some time in prison; every possible means was had recourse to, to prevail on him to abandon his religion and adopt the worship of the sun and stars, but in vain; and the Arabs cut off his head, wearied at his obstinate refusal;* S. Apollinaris.

Feast days

Feast: July 22

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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.