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Saint Philip the Apostle looking up, a cross on his shoulder, painted by Peter Paul Rubens about 1611

Saint Philip the Apostle

The apostle who asked at the Last Supper, “Lord, shew us the Father”

Patron of
Montevideo, with James the Less
Western calendar
3 May, with Saint James the Less
Orthodox calendar
14 November (27 November on the old calendar)

Philip came from Bethsaida, the town of Peter and Andrew, and when Jesus said to him, "Follow me", he followed and went to bring Nathaniel. John's Gospel remembers him three times more: asked where bread could be bought for the five thousand, bringing to Jesus the strangers who wished to see him, and asking at the Last Supper, "Lord, shew us the Father, and it is enough for us", to be told, "He that seeth me, seeth the Father also." Orthodox tradition tells that he preached in Greece, Syria and Asia Minor and was crucified at Hieropolis in Phrygia, praying for those who had crucified him.

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