Philip of Heraclea

Holy Hieromartyr Philip of Heraclea was bishop of Heraclea in Thrace and suffered in the time of Diocletian (284 to 305), around the year 303, at Philippopolis in Thrace, together with Severus, Memnon and thirty-⁠seven other soldiers. The place kept in our records is Edirne.

When the governor learned that Severus had brought the centurion Memnon to Christ, he ordered Memnon tortured: three strips of skin were cut from his back, while Severus was raked with iron hooks, had red-⁠hot rings put on his fingers, was girded with a red-⁠hot iron belt and was then blinded. Bishop Philip and the others had their hands and feet cut off and were thrown into a blazing furnace.

Saint Philip is commemorated, together with Severus, Memnon and the other martyrs, on 20 August (new style). The Greek synaxaria add that we have no further details of his life.