The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity

from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world

Name

Philippos, bishop of Heraclea-Perinthus and martyr of Hadrianopolis (Thrace), and companions

Saint ID

S00394

Number in BH

BHG 1567f; BHL 6834-6836

Gender

Male

Type of Saint

Martyrs, Bishops , Groups and pairs of saints, Lesser clergy

Related Evidence Records

ID	Title
E00598	Mosaic in the Rotunda of Thessalonike (south Balkans/Greece), of the 5th/6th c., depicting the bishop *Philippos (probably the martyr of Hadrianopolis, Thrace, S00394), with an inscription describing him as a bishop, and indicating October as the month of his festival.
E01572	The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 22 October the martyrdom of Philippos (bishop and martyr of Hadrianopolis, Thrace, S00394) and of Hermēs (martyr of Hadrianopolis, Thrace, S01099). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E04990	The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 18 October.
E04994	The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 22 October.
E04995	The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 23 October.
E05033	The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 27 November.
E06837	An alternative version of the Greek Martyrdom of Polyeuktos (soldier and martyr of Melitene, S00325), almost certainly a 10th c. or slightly earlier text which reproduces almost unchanged a lost earlier Martyrdom of Philippos (bishop of Heraclea-Perinthus and martyr of Hadrianopolis, Thrace, S00394). Skeleton entry
E06896	The Latin Martyrdom of *Philippus (bishop of Heraclea of Thrace, and martyr of Hadrianopolis, S00394) and his companions Hermes and Severus recounts the trial of its heroes, their execution by burning, and their burial in a village near Hadrianopolis. Translation of a probably 4th c. Greek original from Hadrianopolis of Thrace (eastern Balkans).