Phocas of Sinope
saint
Feast: 5 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Phocas, sometimes called Phocas the Gardener (Greek: Φωκᾶς), is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. His life and legend may have been a fusion of three men with the same name: a Phocas of Antioch, a Phocas the Gardener and Phocas, Bishop of Sinope.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q943937 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Saint Phocas (CC BY-SA)
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