Saints

Bianor and Silvanus are martyrs of Pisidia, the rough highland province of southern Asia Minor, who suffered in the persecution of Diocletia...

Blaise the Herdsman (Βλάσιος ὁ Βουκόλος, "the cowherd") was a simple keeper of cattle near Caesarea in Cappadocia who, in the persecutions o...

Blaise of Sebaste (Βλάσιος; † c. 316) was bishop of Sebaste in Armenia and one of the most beloved hieromartyrs of both East and West. A phy...

Bogolep (1660–1667) was a seven-year-old boy of the Ushakov family, baptised Boris, whose father was sent as governor to Chorny Yar — "Black...

Boniface (c. 675 – 754), born Wynfrith in the West Saxon country at Crediton in Devon, is the Apostle of the Germans: the English monk who s...

Boniface of Tarsus (died c. 290) is remembered for one of the most striking conversion stories in the Church's calendar. A dissolute househo...

Boris and Gleb, sons of Vladimir the Baptizer of Rus' and named Roman and David at the font, were killed in the succession war of 1015 on th...

Boris, prince (knyaz) of the Bulgarians from 852 to 889 and called Michael at his baptism about 864, is the Baptizer of Bulgaria: the ruler...

The Anglo-Saxon abbot of Icanho, whose monastery the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records him beginning to build in 654 — a fixed point in a centur...

Brigid of Kildare (c. 451 – c. 525) is, with Patrick and Columba, one of the three patron saints of Ireland, and the most beloved of Irish w...

Bucolus (Boukolos, †c. 100) was the first bishop of Smyrna in Asia Minor and a disciple of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian. S...