death_date religion birth_place feast_day imagesize venerated_in birth_date titles image article_title name
11th october -lrb- 1st century -rrb- christianity caesarea , palestine 11th october 250px coptic syriac orthodox church oriental orthodoxy , lutheranism orthodox church armenian apostolic church ethiopian orthodox church unknown -lrb- 1st century -rrb- evangelist or deacon file : rembrandt 169.jpg philip the evangelist
 saint philip the evangelist
philip the evangelist

saint philip the evangelist appears several times in the acts of the apostles .
he was one of the seven chosen to care for the poor of the christian community in jerusalem -lrb- -rrb- .
he preached and performed miracles in samaria , and met and baptised an ethiopian man , a eunuch , in gaza , traditionally marking the start of the ethiopian church -lrb- -rrb- .
later , he lived in caesarea maritima with his four daughters who prophesied , where he was visited by paul -lrb- -rrb- .
