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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Martyrs

Theophilus, Philip and Five Companions

Bishop Theophilus, Philip and five other martyrs of Laodicea in Phrygia, commemorated in the Syriac Martyrology of 411.

Feast
June 26old style July 9
Era
unknown
Place
Laodicea in Phrygia
Order
Martyrs

Life

Theophilus, Philip and Five Companions were martyrs of Laodicea in Phrygia, saints of the undivided Church. Theophilus was a bishop.

The Syriac Martyrology of 411 relates in a short note that they had at first belonged to the party of the Cathari, that is, the Novatians, then, in the time of the persecution, returned to the faith of the Church, united with it and bore witness to Christ by death: Theophilus, bishop, Philip and five others. The Latin Hieronymian Martyrology gives the names Theophilus, Auxentius, Pudens, Philip and Alexander. No other account survives.

Commemorated the same day June 26