Atkinson, The Passions and the Homilies from Leabhar Breac (1887) — English translation.

¹ Philip the apostle spent twenty years preaching and teaching in Scythia. Then the heathens came to him and bound him, and took him away to the temple of Mars — that is, the god of their idols. It was there that the huge dragon was, the one that had killed the two tribunes who were at the head of the city collecting the Caesar’s tribute from the Romans; and it was the impious ministers of that dragon who bound Philip.

² Now there was a great multitude suffering various diseases in that city, from the poisonous breath that came from that dragon — some blind, some deaf and lame, and every other ailment it brought upon them — so that they might make offerings to the devil for the healing of those diseases, and that he might damn their souls afterwards. Now Philip the apostle said to all the people who were in sickness in the city: “Take my counsel,” he said, “and you shall have health of body and soul: let the devilish dragon that has wrought destruction upon you hitherto be driven out in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I will raise up in the name of Christ the people who were killed by it.” “Tell us at once what we must do,” they said. “Cast out the image of Mars and break it,” said Philip, “and set up the cross of Christ in its place, and worship it from then on.” “Give us only healing,” they said, “and we will break the image and idol of Mars after that.” When a great silence had fallen there, the apostle said: “Come out, dragon,” he said, “and leave the place where you are, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and go into some wilderness where there is no human habitation, so that you may never again do harm to man.” So the dragon went out then at the apostle’s word, with great wailing and lamentation, and the lamentation of the demons around it, until it filled the temple with its grief and its stench; and no one dared remain there after that.

³ Then Philip raised up the son of the priest who used to put fire under the offerings, and at once healed all the people who were in diseases from the poisonous breath of the serpent. All the people who had been in contention with Philip before that turned to sincere repentance when they saw that great miracle.

⁴ Now Hierapolis was the name of the city in which Philip was crucified, and they used to worship Philip as a god. Philip taught them for a year, and this was the teaching he used to give — how Christ was born of the Virgin, and how he suffered, and how he ascended to heaven in the presence of his apostles, and how the grace of the Holy Spirit came upon his apostles and gave them the grace of the many tongues on the Sunday of Pentecost — for until then they had been of one tongue, namely Hebrew. “I am one of them,” said Philip, “and I was sent to you to make these things known to you — that the idols which you worship are not gods in truth, but dumb idols without sense, without law, the vain works of the hands of sinful men, and that they who worship them are true enemies of God.” Many believed Philip there — they were not few, more than many thousands of people — and he baptised them all, and many churches were built by him there, and he ordained bishops and priests and deacons.

⁵ Then it was revealed to Philip in a vision that it was fitting for him to leave those lands and cities and go to the bishop of Asia, to consult with him and speak with him. So Philip the apostle went to Asia Major, and remained in the city of Hierapolis, and he despised and overthrew the faith of the Ebionites — for this is what they used to say, “that it was not of a virgin that Christ was born.” Philip despised them and overturned their faith.

⁶ Now Philip had two daughters — two excellent virgins they were — and through them God gave a countless number of other virgins to the faith and to religion. So on the twelfth day before his passion Philip called to him all the priests and deacons and bishops of the neighbouring cities, and said to them: “Only twelve days of my life remain,” he said, “so be diligent in the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ, and pray resolutely to the Lord, and fight bravely on behalf of your duties and against your sins, and despise and scorn the ancient enemy, the devil, with his temptations, and subdue and crucify your fleshly desires in fasting, in prayer, in abstinence, and in alms of food and clothing to the poor and to God’s needy. Then God will fulfil his promises to us, if we do all these things: God will give us peace and steadfast joy in this world, and the kingdoms of heaven to our souls after death; and God will magnify his miracles in the earthly churches, for these are the prophecies and promises of the Lord to us, if we fulfil these things as best we can.”

⁷ Then impious crowds arose, and the Jewish priests, against Philip the apostle, and this is what they said — that his tongue should be cut out. It was done; yet he did not cease preaching to the people any the more for that. Then the people and the priests said again that his tongue should be cut out; it was done, and it did not hurt him. Seven times then was the apostle’s tongue cut out by them, and he did not cease from preaching throughout that time. Then they said that he should be stoned: they took stones and leaden balls and cast them at his face, and none of them hurt him. Then the people and the priests said that the apostle should be crucified, since they could find no other death for him. A certain impious and merciless man among them came forward, and put a venomed dart about the holy apostle’s neck, and they crucified him there, after many pains and insults and scourgings, in the manner of his Master, Jesus.

⁸ Now Hierapolis was the name of the city in which Philip the apostle was crucified. Then a great glory was seen, with the lamentation of angels around the cross, when Philip sent forth his spirit; and the angels laid the apostle’s soul to rest in the dwelling-places of the kingdom of heaven, in angelic glory after the victory of martyrdom. Now the holy apostle Philip was eighty-six years old when he departed to the Lord.

⁹ Now the apostle’s body was buried in the city that is named Bethsaida. And his two daughters, the two holy virgins, were buried beside him — one of them on the apostle’s right hand and the other on his left. It is there that their prayer is granted to everyone who prays earnestly to the apostle and his two holy virgins; and though great is their honour now, it will be far greater on the day of judgement, when they shall shine like the sun from heaven before the face of the Creator, etc.

Here in the source begins the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.*