Honorific Prefix: | Saints |
Phileas and Philoromus | |
Birth Date: | 3rd century |
Birth Place: | Egypt |
Death Place: | Alexandria, Egypt |
Feast Day: | 4 February (Roman calendar) 26 November (Eastern calendar) |
Saints Phileas and Philoromus (died) were two Egyptian martyrs under the Emperor Diocletian. Phileas was Bishop of Thmuis and Philoromus was a senior imperial officer.
From De viris illustribus (4th century):
The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921),
The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints,
Nathaniel Lardner (1684–1768) in his Credibility of the Gospel History wrote,