2-sided St. Phocas Planting a Tree (Quote) Garden Flag

St. Phocas the Gardener was a pious, early 4th-century Christian innkeeper with a green thumb in Sinope, Pontus (modern Turkey). Known for his charity, he fed the poor from the surplus of his abundant vegetable garden. He was hospitable even to the Roman soldiers sent to execute him for The Faith feeding and sheltering them the night before his demise. Having dug his own grave, St. Phocas was beheaded c. 303 during Emperor Diocletian’s persecution. St. Phocas is patron of ornamental- and market-gardening. + Feast: July 23 + Image Credit (BLA 02): Antique image of St. Phocas the Gardener from a late 19th-century devotional print #11, originally published in chromolithography by Buchhandlung L. Auer, Donauwörth, Germany, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. Background by Saints_Aplenty. Quotation: Our pithy, idiomatic rendition of 1 Corinthians 3:7 is based on various English-language translations of the Biblical text that appears in German on the original print.