Saints

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  Aaron the High Priest

  Aaron, son of Amram and Jochebed of the tribe of Levi, elder brother of Moses and of Miriam, is the first high priest of Israel and the head...

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  Abdias of Persia

  Abdias (Abda, Abidas — the name is glossed Obadiah, "servant of the Lord") was a martyr of the Church of Persia under the Sassanid king Yazd...

• Abercius and Helen

  Abercius and Helen were a brother and sister of the apostolic generation, named in the synaxarion of May 26 as the children of the Apostle A...

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  Abercius of Hierapolis

  Abercius (†c. 167) was the second-century bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia whom the Church honours as Equal-to-the-Apostles and Wonderworker...

• Abibas

  Abibas was the younger son of the teacher of the Law Gamaliel, baptised with his father by the Apostles Peter and John, and dead at about tw...

• Abo of Tiflis

  Abo of Tiflis (c. 756 – 786) was an Arab perfumer of Baghdad who embraced the Christian faith in Georgia and died a martyr for it — the patr...

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  Abraham and Lot

  Abraham, the father of all believers, is the patriarch whom God called out of Ur of the Chaldees with the promise that in his seed all the n...

• Abraham of Carrhae

  Abraham (fourth century – c. 422), called the Hermit and afterwards bishop of Carrhae, was a Syrian ascetic of the region of Cyrrhus whose l...

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  Abraham the Recluse and Mary his Niece

  Abraham the Recluse (died c. 360) was a hermit and priest of the village of Kidun, near Edessa in Mesopotamia, whose Life was written by his...

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  Abramius of Arbela

  Abramius (Abraham) of Arbela was a bishop in the Persian province of Adiabene, around the city of Arbela (modern Erbil), and a martyr of the...

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  Abramius of Galich

  Abramius — in Russian usage Avraamy, and in English commonly Abraham — of Galich and Chukhloma was a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh who car...

• Abramius of Paleostrov

  Abramius was the disciple and successor of Cornelius of Paleostrov, the founder of monastic life on Palei Island in Lake Onega in the Olonet...

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  Abramius of Smolensk

  Abramius of Smolensk (mid-12th century – after 1224) is the greatest figure of monastic learning in the Russian principalities before the Mo...

• Abramius the Lover-of-Labour of the Caves

  Abramius was a monk of the Monastery of the Caves at Kiev whose whole memory is contained in his epithet. The seventeenth-century accounts o...

• Abudimus of Tenedos

  Abudimus was a Christian of the small Aegean island of Tenedos, off the Troad opposite the site of Troy, martyred in the persecution of Dioc...

• Acacius of Apamea

  Acacius was tried for the faith at Apamea by three successive governors — Licinius, Terence and Posidonius — and passed through the whole re...

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  Acacius of Sinai

  Acacius of Sinai was a young monk of the sixth century whose perfect obedience, kept for nine years under a harsh and negligent elder, becam...

• Acacius the Centurion

  Acacius was a Cappadocian officer of the Roman army — a centurion of the company called the Martesian — who confessed Christ before his own...

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  Acacius the Confessor

  Acacius the Confessor was bishop of Melitene in Armenia in the middle of the third century. Arrested in the persecution of Decius (249–251)...

• Achillas the Anchorite

  Achillas (4th–5th century) was one of the Desert Fathers of Scetis, the great monastic wilderness of Lower Egypt, and a priest of that commu...

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  Achilles of Larissa

  Achillios, bishop and metropolitan of Larissa in Thessaly, was one of the fathers of the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea in 325, where he...

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  Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus and Anempodistus

  Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus and Anempodistus were five martyrs of fourth-century Persia — courtiers and secret Christians...

• Adomnan of Iona

  Adomnan (c. 624–704), called Eunan in his native Donegal, was the ninth abbot of Iona (679–704) and, after Columba himself, the most illustr...

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  Adrian and Eubulus

  Adrian and Eubulus were two Christians of the region of Batanea who, at the height of the Diocletianic persecution, came to Caesarea to visi...

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  Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia

  Adrian and Natalia are the married martyrs of Nicomedia in the last and worst of the imperial persecutions, and theirs is one of the most hu...

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  Adrian of Ondrusov

  Adrian of Ondrusov (†1549/1550) was, in the world, Andrei Zavalishin, a landowner of the Olonets country north-east of Lake Ladoga who, hunt...

• Adrian of Poshekhonye

  Adrian of Poshekhonye (†1550) was a Russian monk, iconographer, and monastic founder, and a venerable-martyr. A disciple of Cornelius of Kom...

• Adrian of Uglich

  Adrian was one of the first ten disciples of Paisius of Uglich, his cell-attendant and closest companion, and afterwards a hieromonk and the...

• Aetherius of Nicomedia

  Aetherius is a martyr of the Diocletianic persecution, kept on June 18 in the Greek and Slavonic books beside the martyrs of Tripoli. Of his...

• Africanus, Pompeius and Terence

  Africanus, Pompeius (also called Publius) and Terence, with a company of fellow-Christians, were martyrs of Africa who suffered in the third...

• Agape, Chionia and Irene

  Agape, Chionia and Irene were three Christian sisters of Thessalonica martyred in the persecution of Diocletian in 304. Refusing to eat food...

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  Agapitus of Synnada

  Agapitus (4th century) was a confessor and wonderworker, bishop of Synnada in Phrygia. Born in Cappadocia of devout parents in the last year...

• Agapitus of the Kiev Caves

  Agapitus of the Kiev Caves (†1095) is the first physician of the Russian land whose name is remembered, and the first Russian saint to bear...

• Agapius and his Companions

  Agapius and his companions (†c. 303) were a band of young men of Palestine — Agapius, Plesius, Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius and tw...

• Agapius of Vatopedi

  Agapius of Vatopedi (13th century) was a young monk of the Holy Mountain, a novice at the Trinity cell of Kolitsou, a dependency of the grea...

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  Agatha of Sicily

  Agatha of Catania (c. 231–251) is one of the most venerated virgin-martyrs of the ancient Church, put to death in Sicily during the persecut...

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  Agathangelus

  Agathangelus (†c. 312) was the young companion and fellow-martyr of Clement of Ancyra. A native of Rome, he was moved by the constancy of th...

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  Agathoclia

  Agathoclia was a Christian slave in the household of a man named Nicolas, himself a Christian, and his pagan wife Paulina. For eight years h...

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  Agathon of Rome

  Agathon (c. 577 – 681) was Pope of Rome from 678 to 681, under whom the Sixth Ecumenical Council — Constantinople III (680–681) — condemned...

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  Agathonicus of Nicomedia

  Agathonicus was a well-born and learned Christian of Nicomedia, the eastern capital of the Roman world, who used his standing and his knowle...

• Agathonike of Carthage

  Agathonike is a virgin-martyr of Carthage commemorated on August 10 in the Greek calendar, of whom nothing whatever is transmitted but the n...

• Agathopodes and Theodulus

  Agathopodes, an aged deacon, and Theodulus, a young reader, were clergy of the church of Thessalonica who during the Great Persecution of Di...

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  Agnes of Rome

  Agnes of Rome (c. 291 – c. 304) is one of the most celebrated virgin-martyrs of the undivided Church, a girl of about twelve or thirteen who...

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  Agrippina of Rome

  Agrippina was a Roman virgin of the third century who refused marriage, consecrated herself wholly to Christ, and — in the persecution the G...

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  Ahijah the Shilonite

  Ahijah the Shilonite (in Greek Achias) was a prophet of the tenth century before Christ, from the ancient sanctuary town of Shiloh, active i...

• Aidan of Lindisfarne

  Aidan was an Irish monk of Iona sent in 635 at the request of King Oswald of Northumbria to convert the English of the north, who made his s...

• Ailbe of Emly

  Ailbe (Ailbhe, Latin Albeus) is the patron of Munster and by tradition the first bishop of Emly (Imlech Ibair) in Tipperary, remembered in I...

• Aithalas of Persia

  Aithalas was a deacon of the Church in Persia who was put to death for Christ around the year 380, during the long persecution of Christians...

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  Akepsimas, Joseph and Aithalas

  Akepsimas, Joseph and Aithalas were leaders of the Church in Persia — a bishop, a priest, and a deacon — martyred under the Sassanid king Sh...

• Martyrs of Alapaevsk

  On the night of 18 July 1918 — the night after the shooting of the imperial family at Ekaterinburg — eight prisoners held at the Urals facto...