Life and Martyrdom
The record presents Philoumenus as a bread merchant of Ancyra, a leading city of Galatia in Asia Minor. He was denounced to the governor Felix by those described as envious persons, who reported that he was a Christian, and on this accusation he was brought to trial.
Standing before the governor, Philoumenus did not renounce Christ. For his confession he was subjected to torture: according to the account, nails were driven into his hands, feet, and head, and he was forced to walk. He endured the torments steadfastly and died from loss of blood.
A more detailed tradition preserved in the Greek sources elaborates the sequence of his sufferings, describing nails first hammered through his feet, his flesh torn, a piercing with a wooden blade, and his being cast into a lit furnace which he survived; he was then made to run a distance of some thirty stades, roughly four miles, until he died of exhaustion and loss of blood.