ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 12th of May WELCOME! SAINT PHILIP, PRIEST, APOSTLE OF SICILY The most famous biography of Saint Philip of Agyrium in Sicily is fabulous and therefore hardly touches on his companion, the holy Eusebius , who is said to have been a monk and a contemporary, and neither does it mention Deacon Philip, who is venerated as part of the little group of assistants of Saint Philip, Apostle of Sicily. In the place where Saint Philip lived and worked around the beginning of the 5th century ( in diebus Arcadii imperatoris begins a Life of Saint Philip, cited by Baronius *), he has always been venerated, and his memory has been faithfully handed down the generations. This fact, and the number of rich legends of miracles which glorify him confirm his great activity in these regions, through which he acquired (cf. Mart. I. 99) the honorary title "Apostle of the Sicilians". He sent his student of the same name [Philip the deacon] to Pal...