- Source: Phocas, Bishop of Sinope
Hieromartyr Phocas (Greek: Φωκάς) was born in the city of Sinope in northern Turkey. His life and legend may have been a fusion of three men with the same name: a Phocas of Antioch, Phocas, Bishop of Sinope, and Phocas the Gardener. Only the last seems authentic.
His parents, Pamphilus and Maria, were pious Christians.
During his adult years he became Bishop of Sinope. At the time of persecution against Christians under the emperor Trajan (98–117), the governor demanded that the saint renounce Christ. After fierce torture they enclosed St Phocas in a hot bath, where he died a martyr's death in the year 117.
A homily in his honour was composed by Saint John Chrysostom on the occasion of the translation of his relics to Constantinople. The translation of his holy relics from Pontus to Constantinople about the year 404 A.D. is celebrated on July 23. His primary feast is on September 22, and he is called a wonderworker.
The Hieromartyr Phocas is especially venerated as a defender against fires, and also as a helper of the drowning.
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- Phocas (disambiguation)
- July 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- July 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- September 22
- List of early Christian saints
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