Philotheus of Samosata

Holy Martyr Philotheus of Samosata is remembered together with the martyrs Romanus, James, Hyperechius, Abibus, Julian and Parigorius, who suffered in the year 297, in the time of the persecution of Diocletian (284-305), in the city of Samosata in Syria, on the bank of the Euphrates.

They fearlessly denounced the folly of the service of idols and were seized and given to various grievous torments: their bodies were scraped with iron, heavy iron chains hung round their necks, they were shut in prison and finally hung, their heads nailed to the cross.

The saints are commemorated on 11 February. The Azbyka page gives no other details of Philotheus.