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Venerable

Phylax

A monastic saint of Jerusalem, commemorated in the old Typikon of Jerusalem.

Feast
August 30old style September 12
Era
unknown
Place
Jerusalem

Life

The venerable Phylax is unknown to the synaxaria. He is mentioned in Jerusalem Codex 1096, on folio 123, in these words: "Memory of the venerable patriarchs Alexander, John and Paul the New, and of the venerable Phylax". His existence and the date of his commemoration are not confirmed by other sources.

His commemoration is entered on 30 August, by the church calendar of the Church of Greece.

Commemorated the same day August 30