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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Theophilos, Philippos and five companions, martyrs in Laodikeia of Phrygia

Saint ID

S01053

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints, Bishops
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01521The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 26 June the martyrdom of the bishop *Theophilos, Philippos and their five companions (martyrs in Laodikeia of Phrygia, S01053). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E04893The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 28 July.