Philadelphus

Holy Martyr Philadelphus is remembered in a group of martyrs mentioned in the Byzantine verse synaxaria: Diomedes, Julian, Philip, Eutychian, Hesychius, Leonidas, Eutychius, Philadelphus, Melanippus, Parthagapia and Theodore.

Of each, the synaxaria give the manner of death. Diomedes was pierced with a blade, Julian's head was broken with a club, Philip was beheaded with the sword, Eutychian died on a red-⁠hot grate, Leonidas was thrown into the fire, Eutychius was crucified, Melanippus was burned, and Parthagapia and Philadelphus, with a stone tied round his neck, were drowned in the sea. The Roman Martyrology gives as the place of their martyrdom the town of Pamia in Gaul, now Pamiers in France. Yet each of these saints has in the Greek synaxaria a couplet of his own, which does not allow them to be counted as a single group of martyrs.

About Philadelphus himself the synaxaria say only that he was drowned in the sea with a stone tied round his neck. The saints are commemorated on 15 September. They are not included in the present calendar of the Russian Church.