Saint Phocas the Gardener
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- 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
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agricultural workers,
boatmen,
farm workers,
farmers,
field hands,
gardeners,
husbandmen,
mariners,
market-gardeners,
sailors,
watermen
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