Phocas, sometimes called Phocas the Gardener, is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. His life and legend may have been a fusion of three men with the same name: a Phocas of Antioch, a Phocas the Gardener and Phocas, Bishop of Sinope.

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• gardeners
• market-gardeners
• hospitality
• agricultural workers
• farmers
• fieldhands
• husbandmen
• sailors
• mariners
• watermen

~303 AD?

canonized

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