Philonides

Saint Philonides is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 20 August (new style) as a priest, in the list of martyrs Severus and Memnon, Lucius the senator, Heliodorus and Dosas, Photine, Eudaemon, Reginus, Orestes and Philonides.

Of Severus and Memnon the synaxarion relates that Severus was from Side in Pamphylia, son of Petronius of Thrace and Mygdonia. Come to Philippopolis (today Plovdiv), he saw the thirty-⁠seven martyrs struggling bravely for Christ and confessed the one true God as well. His flesh was torn with red-⁠hot iron claws, he was sawn, a belt of red-⁠hot iron was put round his body, and then his head was cut off. Memnon endured similar torments and was burned alive in a furnace. For Philonides the sources consulted contain no particulars of his own.