Saint Phocas the Gardener

Memorial: 23 July
Profile: Innkeeper. Gardener. Martyr. Used surplus crops to feed the poor. Even cared for the soldiers sent to execute him for being a Christian to the point of feeding and sheltering them, and digging his own grave.
Died: beheaded c.303
Canonized: Pre-Congregation
Patronage: agricultural workers
boatmen
farm workers
farmers
field hands
gardeners
husbandmen
mariners
market-gardeners
sailors
watermen
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