Philip

Saint Philip, the father of Saint Eugenia, is commemorated on 24 December (new style, the Greek calendar). The synaxarion says that he died a martyr, killed with a knife. A verse shows that the edge of the knife killed Philip, like a double-⁠edged sword against error.

The Greek source does not link his name to the city of Philippi and gives no other details of his life; for Saint Eugenia it refers to the day of the same commemoration.