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This martyr of Christ's was born near Alexandria. During a perse-cution of Christians, Philosophus refused to renounce Christ the Lord before the pagan princes and judges, and they therefore inflicted terrible tortures on him. After he had been tortured in various ways, they finally placed him on a soft bed, bound hand and foot, and put a harlot in with him to entice him into sin. When Philosophus felt passion awakening in himself through the touch of the woman's hands, he took his tongue between his teeth, bit it through and spat it out in the harlot's face. His passion was extin-guished and the harlot was so aghast that she fled from him at once. He was afterwards beheaded with the sword, in about 252, whilst still young in years, and entered into the Kingdom of eternal youth.
(In the Greek Prologue, St Philosophus is commemorated on May 1st.)
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