Martyr
Phocas
A martyr commemorated with Meliton, Peter of Sinope and 1040 other martyrs.
Life
Holy Martyr Phocas is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 30 June (new style) in a company of martyrs: Meliton, Peter of Sinope, Phocas, Conon, Symeon, Isaac and a further one thousand and forty. The synaxarion says that Meliton died by the sword and Peter of Sinope was dragged over sharp stones; the one thousand and forty are unknown to the synaxaria, and their memory, with Phocas, Conon, Symeon and Isaac, appears in the Jerusalem Kanonarion (p. 97). Of Phocas no further details are preserved.
Commemorated the same day June 30
Donatus of MünstereifelMartyr · Martyr of the catacombsJun 30
Dinar of HeretiRight-Believing · Queen of HeretiJun 30
Peter of RostovVenerable · Tsarevich of the HordeJun 30
Gervasios ParaskevopoulosVenerable · of PatrasJun 30- Michael BaknanasNew Martyr · Gardener of AthensJun 30
Basilides of AlexandriaMartyrJun 30- Timothy PetropavlovskyHieromartyr · PriestJun 30
- 1040 MartyrsHoly MartyrsJun 30
- Alexis VvedenskyHieromartyrJun 30
- Alpinian and AustriclinianHoly Confessors · Priests, companions of Martial of LimogesJun 30
- Bertram of Le MansSaint · Bishop of Le MansJun 30
- CaolanSaintJun 30