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40 Homilies on the Gospels 36:1Gregory the DialogistHOMILY XXXVI. Delivered to the people in the basilica of the blessed apostles Philip and James, on the second Sunday after Pentecost.May 1:2The Roman MartyrologyThe blessed Apostles Philip and James. Philip brought nearly all Scythia to believe in Christ, but in the end, at the city of Hierapolis, in Asia, was fastened to a cross and stoned, and so fell asleep gloriously, [in the year 61.] James, who is written of as the brother of the Lord, and was the first Bishop of Jerusalem, was cast down from a pinnacle of the temple, whereby his legs were broken, and he was slain by a blow upon the head from a fuller's pole, and buried there not far from the temple.