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Theophilus the Schoolmaster
schoolmaster and martyr
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Feast: 6 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Caesarea in Cappadocia, in present-day Turkey, Saints Dorothea, virgin, and Theophilus, schoolmaster, martyrs.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 6 February as a schoolmaster martyred at Caesarea in Cappadocia with Saint Dorothea.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 6 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R4dff5f8a — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.