Philemon

Saint Philemon lived at Jerusalem in the fifth century as a disciple and fellow ascetic of Saint Passarion. Passarion was one of the best known ascetics of Palestine, a contemporary of Patriarch Juvenal of Jerusalem (420-458) and a teacher of Saint Euthymius the Great. He founded at Jerusalem a home for the aged, with a house of prayer in his name, where his memory was kept on 21 November.

The venerable Agapius and Philemon, his disciples, are commemorated with Passarion in the old Kanonarion of Jerusalem (on page 90). They are commemorated on 10 May, by the church calendar of the Church of Greece.