authentic · Anonymous record of the trial of Phileas, bishop of Thmuis, and the soldier Philoromus before the prefect Culcianus at Alexandria (martyred 4 February 306 or 307). The Greek original is lost; the Latin version printed here is the one Ruinart edited and Knopf reprinted. A Greek papyrus fragment (Bodmer XX) and a letter of Phileas to the Thmuites, quoted in Eusebius, Church History 8.10, are separate texts.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Anonymous or pseudonymous work read and used in the church of its time.
Date
ca. 306-311 (approximate) · The martyrdom itself is dated 306-307; the record was probably written soon after, in Greek.
Written at
Alexandria, Egypt (probable)
Language
Latin
Genre
martyrdom
Reference system
chapter (Roman numeral in the edition) and section, cited chapter.section (e.g. 1.4)
SBL abbreviation
Act. Phil.Not yet checked
Text from
Rudolf Knopf and Gustav Krüger, eds., Ausgewählte Märtyrerakten, 3rd ed. (Tübingen: Mohr, 1929), no. 31, pp. 112-116, text after Ruinart, Acta primorum martyrum (Paris, 1689), 519-521 (Printed edition in the public domain)
Critical editions
Hippolyte Delehaye, Les martyrs d'Égypte, Analecta Bollandiana 40 (1922), 299-314 (cited only) (cited, not reproduced)