Philip the Apostle
Feast · apostle
- 3 May (Roman Catholic Church)
- 14 November (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Kept on 14 November in the East and 3 May in the West — and the Byzantine Nativity Fast opens the following day, which is why it is called Philip's Fast.
After New Advent (Fathers and Catholic Encyclopedia).
Commemorating
- Philip the Apostle commemorates
Where this is recorded
- Roman Catholic Church — the day, after Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar
- Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after The Typikon, ch. 48, the Menaion — 14 November, «Ст҃а́гѡ и҆ всехва́льнагѡ а҆пⷭ҇ла фїлі́ппа», p. 245