Holy Martyr Apphia, wife of the Apostle Philemon.
St. Apphia is greeted by the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to Philemon as a beloved fellow-Christian; tradition holds her to be the wife of Philemon, in whose house at Colossae the Church gathered.
She suffered martyrdom together with her husband when pagans broke into the church during a festival and stoned the faithful, in the first century.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Apphia the Martyr is commemorated on February 20. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on March 5 (a day earlier in leap years) of the civil calendar.
Who celebrates a name day
People with these names keep their name day on this feast:
Also commemorated on February 20
Agathon of Rome
Hierarch, Αγάθων Ρώμης
St. Agathon, Pope of Rome, defender of Orthodoxy against Monothelitism.
Sadok and the 128 Martyrs
Hierarch, Σαδώκ και οι συν αυτώ
Hieromartyr Sadok, Bishop of Persia, and the 128 Martyrs with him.
Cornelius of the Pskov Caves
Venerable, Κορνήλιος του Πσκωφ
Venerable Martyr Cornelius, Abbot of the Pskov Caves Monastery.
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