Philicles of Rome

Holy Martyr Philicles of Rome is remembered in the group of martyrs who suffered with the holy virgin Chrysia, in the year 269, in the time of the emperor Claudius II (268-270).

Saint Censorinus was the first official in the emperor's service and, secretly accused, was imprisoned for faith in Christ. In prison he raised a dead man in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, after which twenty soldiers, the prison guards, turned to Christ and were beheaded with him. At the same time the maiden Chrysia was brought to trial, who bravely declared herself a Christian, was tortured and, after savage torments, drowned in the sea. Saint Sabinus was beaten with a heavy hammer, then hung from a tree and burned with fire, and in the torments he gave his soul to the Lord.

With Saint Chrysia suffered Philicles, Maximus, Herculinus, Venerius, Styracinus, Mina, Commodus, Hermes, Maurus, Eusebius, Rusticus, Monagrius, Amandinus, Olympius, Cyprus, Theodore the tribune, the priest Maximus, the deacon Archelaus and the bishop Cyrinus. Saint Hippolytus, bishop of Ostia, the port of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber, learning of the martyrs' suffering, came to the trial, though old, and rebuked the persecutor for inhumanity, calling him a drinker of blood. The angry judge gave the holy bishop over to torments and, after long sufferings, bound him hand and foot and cast him into the sea.

About Philicles in particular the page says nothing separate. The saints are commemorated on 12 February. Philicles is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Church.