05 Works, Today, July 3rd, is Saint Phocas’s day, his story in icons #184
1 min readJul 3, 2020
Phocas the Gardener of Sinope
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Saint Phocas, sometimes called Phocas the Gardener, is venerated as a martyr 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…