Philip

Holy Martyr Philip 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.

Philip was beheaded with the sword. Of the others, the synaxaria say that Diomedes was pierced with a blade, Julian's head was broken with a club, 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, but each has in the Greek synaxaria a couplet of his own, which does not allow them to be counted as a single group. The saints are commemorated on 15 September. They are not included in the present calendar of the Russian Church.