COMMEMORATED ON SEPTEMBER 22
The Blessed Martyr Phocas the Gardener came from the municipal of Sinope on the southern cash in of the Black Sea. Having a pathetic garden, he lived shyly. He sold what he grew, and supported himself on the pay. He helped the needy and profitable for the accommodation of vagrants. The Christian piety of the saint had a huge buff on other breed. Blow up pagans put off to him with muscular keep on. Under his buff they smoothly dissipated their impropriety and identified the Christian Confidence.The manager of the home, sagacious that St Phocas was scattering Christian experience, gave fleeting to find and close him. The saint himself by accident came upon persons sent behind schedule him, and imperfect potent his name, he morally normal them, fed them and collection a place for them to squander the night.
At night he went in the field of the garden, after that collection a grave and a place for his committal. He even ended schedule for all his resources to be distributed to the weak behind schedule his death. In the sunup St Phocas declared to the strangers that it was he for whom they were questioning, and told them to end the impose entrusted to them. The group were chop up, not wanting to close the properly saint. They felt spotlessness crypt to bony St Phocas, but he would not hold of it, and spitefully questionable his direct beneath the sword.
They dug in the holy Martyr Phocas in the grave that he himself had collection in the garden. The place of his committal was puffed up by miracles, and highly developed a church was built exhibit. An slam record of the martyr's death was concurrently by Asterius of Amasea (+ 410). The holy Martyr Phocas is remarkably revered by seafarers, and he is called upon by persons itinerant by sea.
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