Philip of Worms

Saint Philip of Worms was an Anglo-⁠Saxon hermit of the eighth century, who lived near the city of Worms in Germany and fell asleep in peace around 770.

Born in England, he came to the continent as a pilgrim and settled as a hermit near Worms. With several disciples he founded the monastery of Zell, so called after his original cell; around it the town of Zell later grew. He is a saint of the undivided Church, from the West, commemorated in the calendar of the Church of Greece on 3 May (new style).