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For bishop see Phocas the bishop of SinopeSaint Phocas sometimes called Phocas the Gardener or Phocas of Sinope is venerated as a martyr by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. His life and legend may have been a fusion of three men with the same name: Phocas of Antioch Phocas the bishop of Sinope and Phocas the Gardener.Christian tradition states that he was a gardener who lived at Sinope on the Black Sea who used his crops to feed the poor and also aided persecuted Christians.
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