Saints

• Alban of Britain

  Alban is the protomartyr of Britain: a citizen of the Romano-British town of Verulamium who sheltered a Christian priest fleeing persecution...

• Albian of Anaea

  Albian (also Olbian or Alvian), bishop of Anaea in the Roman province of Asia, suffered about the year 304 in the persecution of Diocletian...

• Albianos the Venerable

  Albianos is a monastic saint of whom the calendar of Constantinople preserves one clause. Under May 25, beside the Third Finding of the Prec...

• Alcmund of Hexham

  Alcmund (†780/781) was the seventh bishop of Hexham in Northumbria, holding the see of Wilfrid, John of Beverley and Acca from his consecrat...

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  Alexander Hotovitzky

  Alexander Hotovitzky (1872 – autumn 1937), protopresbyter, was the builder-priest of Orthodox New York and, in his last years, the right han...

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  Alexander Nevsky

  Alexander Nevsky (1220–1263) was Prince of Novgorod and Great Prince of Vladimir, the pre-eminent prince-saint of medieval Russia. In an age...

• Alexander and Antonina

  Antonina was a Christian virgin of Krodamon in Asia Minor, celebrated for her beauty and her almsgiving, who was denounced to the governor F...

• Alexander and Asterius of Aegae

  Alexander and Asterius were the two men of the prefect's service in Cilicia who were ordered to bore through the knees of the young physicia...

• Alexander of Adrianople and Companions

  Alexander, bishop of Adrianople in Thrace, was a hieromartyr of the third century who preached the Gospel boldly among the pagans of his cit...

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  Alexander of Alexandria

  Alexander, archbishop and pope of Alexandria from 313 until his death, is the hierarch who first identified and condemned the heresy of Ariu...

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  Alexander of Comana

  Alexander, called the Charcoal-burner, is one of the most attractive figures of the third-century Church in Pontus: a trained philosopher wh...

• Alexander of Jerusalem

  Alexander of Jerusalem (died c. 251) was a bishop of the early third century, remembered as a disciple of Clement of Alexandria and fellow-s...

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  Alexander of Kushta

  Alexander of Kushta (c. 1371–1439) was one of the founders of the monastic wilderness of the Vologda north. Tonsured on the island monastery...

• Alexander of Pydna

  Alexander (died c. 305) was a priest of Pydna, a town on the coast of Macedonia south of Thessalonica, and a hieromartyr of the last great p...

• Alexander of Rome

  Alexander (†c. 119) was, by the ancient reckoning, the fifth Bishop of Rome after the Apostle Peter, who held the see for about ten years in...

• Alexander of Rome the Soldier

  Alexander was a young soldier of the regiment of the Tiberiani at Rome, brought up a Christian by his mother Pimenia, who at the age of eigh...

• Alexander of Side

  Alexander (†c. 270–275) was a priest of Side, the port-city of Pamphylia on the southern coast of Asia Minor, who suffered martyrdom in the...

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  Alexander of Svir

  Alexander of Svir (1448–1533) is the great luminary of monasticism in the forests of the Russian north-east, and the one saint of the Russia...

• Alexander the Sleepless

  Alexander the Sleepless (c. 350 – c. 430) was the founder of the Acoemetae (Greek Ἀκοίμητοι, "the Unsleeping" or "Sleepless Ones"), the monk...

• Alexander, Alphius, Zosimas, Mark and their Companions

  The martyrs Alexander, Alphius, Zosimas, Mark the Shepherd, Nicon, Neon, Heliodorus and some thirty companions suffered in the persecution o...

• Alexander, Barbarus and Acolythus

  Alexander, Barbarus and Acolythus are three martyrs of whom the Synaxarion of Constantinople preserves almost nothing beyond the essentials:...

• Alexander, John and Paul the New, Patriarchs of Constantinople

  August 30 gathers into a single office three archbishops of Constantinople who never met, whose lives lie four and a half centuries apart, a...

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  Alexandra the Empress

  Alexandra, honoured as the wife of the emperor Diocletian, is the most exalted of the converts won by the sufferings of George the Great Mar...

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  Alexis Toth

  Alexis Toth (1854–1909) was a Carpatho-Russian priest of the Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church who came to Minneapolis in 1889, was refused rec...

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  Alexis of Moscow

  Alexis (c. 1292/1305 – 1378) was Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia and one of the great architects of Muscovite Russia — a saint remembere...

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  Alexis the Man of God

  Alexis the Man of God (died c. 411) is one of the most beloved saints of the undivided Church — a young Roman nobleman who, on his own weddi...

• Alexius of Bithynia

  Alexius is a bishop in Bithynia commemorated in the Greek synaxaria on June 10, of whom the record preserves nothing but the name, the provi...

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  Alexius of Bortsurmany

  Alexius Gnevushev (1762–1848) was a village priest of the Volga country who served one parish, the church of the Dormition at Bortsurmany in...

• Alonius of Scetis

  Alonius is one of the Desert Fathers of Egypt, an ascetic of Scetis of the generation that the Sayings of the Fathers preserves, remembered...

• Alphius, Philadelphus and Cyprian of Lentini

  Three brothers of a noble Italian house — Alphius, Philadelphus and Cyprian (called Cyrinus in the Latin books and Kyprinos in the Greek) —...

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  Alypius the Iconographer

  Alypius (†17 August 1114) is the first icon-painter of the Russian Church whose name is known, and the founder of its whole tradition of pai...

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  Alypius the Stylite

  Alypius the Stylite (c. 522–640) was the great pillar-saint of Adrianopolis in Paphlagonia, who is said to have stood upon his column for mo...

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  Ambrose of Milan

  Ambrose of Milan (c. 339–397) was one of the four great Latin Doctors of the Western Church and, with Augustine, Jerome and Gregory the Grea...

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  Ambrose of Optina

  Ambrose of Optina (1812–1891) is the most celebrated of the elders of the Optina hermitage and one of the best-loved saints of nineteenth-ce...

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  Ammon of Egypt

  Ammon of Egypt (Amun of Nitria, c. 290–c. 350) was the founder of the great monastic settlement of the Nitrian desert, the first of the asce...

• Ammonas

  Ammonas (died early fifth century) was a disciple of Anthony the Great and, at Anthony's withdrawal to the Inner Mountain, his successor as...

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  Amos the Prophet

  Amos (8th century BC) was a herdsman and dresser of sycamore figs from Tekoa in the Judaean hill-country who was taken from behind his flock...

• Amphian and Aedesius

  Amphian and Aedesius were brothers of a noble family of Lycia, students at the great schools of Berytus (Beirut) and converts to Christ, who...

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  Amphilochius of Iconium

  Amphilochius of Iconium (c. 340–c. 394) was a bishop of the Cappadocian circle, kinsman of Gregory the Theologian and intimate friend of Bas...

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  Ananias of Damascus

  Ananias of Damascus, numbered among the Seventy Apostles, is the disciple to whom the Lord appeared in a vision after the conversion of Saul...

• Ananias of Persia

  Ananias the Persian was a martyr of the Church in Persia, put to death for his confession of Christ in the fourth century, during the long p...

• Ananias the Iconographer

  Ananias was a monk of the Monastery of Saint Antony the Roman at Novgorod and a painter of icons, remembered for two things: the beauty of t...

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  Ananias, Azarias and Misael

  Ananias, Azarias and Misael — by their Hebrew names Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, and by the Babylonian names given them in exile Shadrach,...

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  Ananias, Peter and the Seven Soldiers

  Ananias, a presbyter in the province of Phoenicia, and with him Peter, the keeper of the prison, and seven soldiers, were martyred in the pe...

• Anastasia of Serbia

  Anastasia — Ana in the world — was the wife of the Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja and the mother of the three men who made mediaeval Se...

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  Anastasia the Deliverer-from-Bonds

  Anastasia the Deliverer-from-Bonds (†c. 304) is one of the great virgin-martyrs of the Church, a noble Roman woman of the persecution of Dio...

• Anastasia the Patrician

  Anastasia the Patrician (c. 510 – c. 567) was a noblewoman of Constantinople, of patrician rank and great beauty, esteemed at the court of t...

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  Anastasia the Roman

  Anastasia the Roman (died c. 256) was an orphan raised from infancy in a community of consecrated virgins near Rome under an abbess named So...

• Anastasius Paneras and Demetrius Begiazes

  Anastasius and Demetrius were two young basket-weavers from Lesbos, working in the Anatolian interior, who were put to death for the faith o...

• Anastasius of Antioch

  Anastasius I, called the Sinaite, was Patriarch of Antioch in the later sixth century — a theologian and defender of Orthodoxy who withstood...