Saints

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  Babylas of Antioch

  Babylas was bishop of Antioch from about 237 until his death in the Decian persecution, c. 253. Celebrated in antiquity for barring an emper...

• Babylas of Sicily, Timothy and Agapius

  Babylas of Sicily, with his two disciples Timothy and Agapius, were third-century martyrs. According to the synaxarion, Babylas — born to a...

• Bademus of Persia

  Bademus (Vadim) was a wealthy nobleman of the city of Beth-Lapat in Persia who gave away his riches, founded a monastery, and lived as its a...

• Balin

  Balin (Balloin, Balanus; 7th century) was an Englishman who became a monk in Ireland: a brother of St Gerald of Mayo, and one of four brothe...

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  Barbara

  Barbara the Great-martyr (†c. 306) is one of the most beloved of the virgin-martyrs of the early Church, honoured throughout East and West....

• Barbara of Alapaevsk

  Barbara Yakovleva was a nun of the Convent of Saints Martha and Mary in Moscow and the cell-attendant of its foundress, the Grand Duchess El...

• Barbarus the Myrrh-streamer

  Barbarus was a brigand of Thessaly who for years lived by robbery, extortion and murder, and who, sitting in his cave among his plunder, was...

• Barbarus, Bacchus, Callimachus and Dionysius

  Barbarus was a soldier of the Roman army under Julian the Apostate who, having won honour for the emperor by killing a barbarian champion in...

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  Barlaam and Josaphat of India

  Barlaam and Josaphat are the two ascetic saints of one of the most widely translated and beloved stories of the medieval world: the hermit B...

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  Barlaam of Antioch

  Barlaam was an aged and unlettered Christian farmer martyred in the persecution of Diocletian, around the year 304. Arrested and unable to b...

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  Barlaam of Khutyn

  Barlaam of Khutyn (died 1192) was the founder of the Monastery of the Transfiguration at Khutyn on the river Volkhov and one of the most bel...

• Barlaam of Moldavia

  Barlaam (Varlaam) was Metropolitan of Moldavia from 1632 to 1653, in the reign of Prince Vasile Lupu, and is the father of printed Romanian...

• Barlaam of Shenkursk

  Barlaam — Vasily Stepanovich Svoezemtsev in the world — was a Novgorod boyar and posadnik of the city who owned great estates on the norther...

• Barnabas and Sophronius of Mela

  Barnabas and his nephew Sophronius were Athenians who left Greece for the mountains of Pontus and settled on Mount Mela (the Black Mountain,...

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  Barnabas of Vetluga

  Barnabas of Vetluga (†1445) was a priest of Great Ustiug who left the world for the uninhabited forest country of the middle Vetluga, a trib...

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  Barnabas the Apostle

  Barnabas — born Joseph, a Levite of Cyprus, whom the apostles surnamed Barnabas, "son of consolation" — is the one apostle of the Seventy wh...

• Barrog of Barry

  Barrog (Barruc, Welsh Barrwg) was a sixth-century Welsh monk, a disciple of St Cadoc of Llancarfan, remembered as the hermit of Barry Island...

• Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet

  Barsanuphius the Great (†after 543) and John the Prophet (†mid-6th century) were two hesychast elders of the monastery of Abba Seridus at Th...

• Barses, Eulogius and Protogenes

  Three bishops of the Syrian Mesopotamian frontier, kept together on one day because they suffered together in one persecution: the Arian rep...

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  Bartholomew the Apostle

  Bartholomew is one of the Twelve, named in every apostolic list of the New Testament and in every one of them beside Philip, and yet given n...

• Baruch the Prophet

  Baruch son of Neriah (7th–6th century BC) was the scribe, disciple and faithful companion of the Prophet Jeremiah, who wrote at his dictatio...

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  Barypsabas of Dalmatia

  Barypsabas (dated by the received account to the 2nd century) was a hermit venerated as the guardian of a most unusual relic: a gourd-vessel...

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  Basil and Constantine of Yaroslavl

  Two brothers, Basil (died 1249) and Constantine (died 1257), successively princes of Yaroslavl on the Volga, orphaned as boys when their fat...

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  Basil of Amasea

  Basil — in the Greek sources Basileus (Βασιλεύς), "the king," not the commoner Basileios — was bishop of Amasea in Pontus in the first decad...

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  Basil of Ancyra

  Basil of Ancyra (†c. 362) was a martyr of Ancyra in Galatia who suffered under the emperor Julian the Apostate. A zealous confessor of the N...

• Basil of Kamen

  Basil of Kamen was a fool-for-Christ of the Saviour-Kamenny monastery, which stood on a single rock of an island in Lake Kubenskoye north of...

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  Basil of Moscow

  Basil the Blessed (†1557) is the most famous of all the Russian fools-for-Christ: a cobbler's apprentice from the village of Yelokhovo who a...

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  Basil of Ostrog

  Basil of Ostrog (Sveti Vasilije Ostroški, born Stojan Jovanović, c. 1610–1671) was the Serbian hierarch of Zahumlje and Skenderija who sheph...

• Basil of Parium

  Basil, Bishop of Parium on the Hellespont, was a confessor of the eighth century who suffered greatly for the holy icons in the first iconoc...

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  Basil of Ryazan

  Basil was bishop of Murom and then of Ryazan in the second half of the thirteenth century, in the generation after the Mongol conquest, and...

• Basil of Thessalonica

  Basil, Archbishop of Thessalonica, is commemorated among the holy hierarchs on February 1. The Greek synaxarion styles him a confessor — one...

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  Basil the Confessor

  Basil the Confessor (†c. 750) was a monk and fellow-ascetic of Procopius of Decapolis, with whom he shared both the ascetic life and the suf...

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  Basil the Great

  Basil the Great (c. 330 – 379) was Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, one of the three Cappadocian Fathers and — with Gregory the Theolog...

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  Basiliscus of Comana

  Basiliscus (†c. 308) was a young Christian of the Pontic country, nephew of the great-martyr Theodore the Recruit, who confessed Christ at A...

• Basilissa and Anastasia of Rome

  Basilissa and Anastasia were noble Christian women of Rome, disciples of the apostles Peter and Paul, who devoted themselves to gathering an...

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  Basilissa of Nicomedia

  Basilissa was a girl of Nicomedia, nine years old in the received accounts, who confessed Christ before the governor Alexander during the pe...

• Bassa of Edessa and her sons Theognius, Agapius and Pistus

  Bassa was a Christian woman of Edessa in Macedonia — the old royal city of the Macedonian kings, not the Syrian Edessa of the apostle with w...

• Bassian and Jonah of Pertominsk

  Bassian and Jonah were monks of the Solovki Transfiguration monastery on the White Sea and disciples of the Igumen Philip — the future Metro...

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  Bassian of Constantinople

  Bassian of Constantinople (fifth century) was a Syrian-born ascetic who settled in the imperial capital in the days of the emperor Marcian (...

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  Bassian of Lodi

  Bassian was bishop of Lodi (Roman Laus Pompeia) in northern Italy for some thirty-five years at the turn of the fourth and fifth centuries,...

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  Bassus, Eusebius, Eutychius and Basilides

  Bassus, Eusebius, Eutychius and Basilides were four men of high rank at Nicomedia — wealthy members of the Senate, or great officers of the...

• Batas of Nisibis

  Batas was a monk of the Church of Persia in the fourth century who was put to death at Nisibis for confessing Christ, about the year 364, in...

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  Bede the Venerable

  Bede (c. 673–735), monk and presbyter of the twin monastery of Wearmouth–Jarrow in Northumbria, is the greatest scholar of the early English...

• Bega of Copeland

  Bega (Bee) is the patroness of St Bees in Copeland, the coastal district of Cumbria whose headland and village still bear her name. The medi...

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  Benedict of Nursia

  Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – c. 547) is honoured as the father of Western monasticism and one of the great ascetic fathers of the undivided...

• Benjamin of Nitria

  Benjamin (†c. 392) was an ascetic of the Nitrian desert in Egypt, one of the desert fathers whose memory is preserved chiefly through the La...

• Benjamin of Persia

  Benjamin of Persia (†c. 424) was a deacon of the Persian church and a tireless evangelist who converted many Zoroastrian Persians to Christ...

• Benjamin of Petrograd and Those with Him

  Benjamin (Kazansky) was the first bishop in the history of the Russian Church to be elected by the free vote of his own diocese, chosen metr...

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  Bessarion the Great

  Bessarion the Great (died c. 466) was one of the great desert fathers of fifth-century Egypt, a wonderworker of Scetis and disciple, the tra...

• Bettelin of Crowland

  Bettelin (Bertram), an eighth-century hermit of Crowland in the English fenland, was a disciple of St Guthlac and is commonly identified wit...