Saints

• Caesarius of Arles

  Caesarius, bishop of Arles for forty years (502–542), is the last great figure of Latin Gaul before it becomes Frankish: a monk of Lérins tu...

• Caesarius of Nazianzus

  Caesarius (c. 331 – c. 369) was the younger brother of Gregory the Theologian and, with him and their sister Gorgonia, one of the children o...

• Caian of Anglesey

  Caian is a saint of early Wales known from a single church dedication: the church of Tregaian ("Caian's homestead"), a chapelry under Llange...

• Callinica and Aquilina

  Callinica and Aquilina were two women of Lycia, of ill fame, whom the persecutor sent in to the imprisoned Great-Martyr Christopher to break...

• Callinicus of Constantinople

  Callinicus I was Patriarch of Constantinople from 693 to 705, through the first and most violent reign of Justinian II. A priest of the grea...

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  Callinicus of Gangra

  Callinicus (†c. 250) was a Christian of Cilicia who left his own country to preach Christ through the cities of Asia Minor, and was seized a...

• Calliopius of Pompeiopolis

  Calliopius was a young Christian of Pompeiopolis in Cilicia, of noble birth, who during the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian confessed...

• Callista, Evodus and Hermogenes

  Callista and her brothers Evodus and Hermogenes were three siblings of Nicomedia who confessed Christ together and were beheaded around the...

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  Callistratus and his Forty-nine Companions

  Callistratus (†c. 304) is the chief martyr of September 27: a Roman soldier of Carthaginian and Christian descent whose secret night prayers...

• Callistus of Constantinople

  Callistus I (†August 1363) was an Athonite hesychast who spent some twenty-eight years on the Holy Mountain as a disciple of Gregory of Sina...

• Caluf of Egypt

  Caluf was a Christian of Thebes in Upper Egypt, put to death in the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian about the year 303. Brought befor...

• Cantidius, Cantidian and Sibel

  Three martyrs of Egypt, commemorated together on August 5 and known only from the bare notice of the synaxaria. Cantidius and Cantidian were...

• Capito and Hymenaeus

  Capito and Hymenaeus are a pair of martyrs whom the Synaxarion of Constantinople enters under July 24, after the great martyr Christina of T...

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  Capitolina and Eroteis of Cappadocia

  Capitolina and Eroteis (Eroteida) were a Cappadocian mistress and her servant martyred about the year 304, in the persecution of Diocletian....

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  Carpus and Alphaeus of the Seventy

  On May 26 the Church keeps the joint memory of two of the Seventy Apostles: Carpus, the host at whose house in Troas the Apostle Paul left t...

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  Carpus, Papylus, Agathodorus and Agathonica

  Carpus, Papylus, Agathodorus and Agathonica (†c. 251) are the chief martyrs of October 13: in the Byzantine tradition, Carpus the bishop of...

• Cassian of Komel

  Cassian of Komel (†1537) was a disciple of Cornelius of Komel and, for a time, abbot of his master's monastery of the Presentation in the Ko...

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  Cassian the Greek of Uglich

  Cassian was a Greek prince of the Crimea who became a Russian hermit. Born into the ruling house of Mangup — the principality of Theodoro in...

• Castor the Martyr

  Castor is a martyr commemorated on September 18 of whom nothing is transmitted beyond his name and his end: he suffered death for the open c...

• Castor the Venerable

  Castor is a venerable monastic commemorated in the Greek synaxaria on August 12, of whom the books preserve one clause: ὁ Ὅσιος Κάστωρ ἐν εἰ...

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  Catherine of Alexandria

  Catherine of Alexandria (†c. 305) is among the most celebrated of the virgin-martyrs, a noblewoman of Alexandria of rare learning and beauty...

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  Cecilia, Valerian, Tiburtius and Maximus

  Cecilia was a Roman noblewoman of the early third century who, having vowed her virginity to Christ, converted on her wedding night her betr...

• Celestine of Rome

  Celestine (Pope of Rome 422–432) was a defender of the Orthodox faith against the heresy of Nestorius, standing with St Cyril of Alexandria...

• Celestine the Martyr

  Celestine is a martyr known to the Church from a single line of the synaxarion. Under May 25, after the notice of the Third Finding of the P...

• Ceolfrid of Wearmouth

  Ceolfrid (Ceolfrith; c. 642–716) was abbot of the twin Northumbrian monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, the teacher and lifelong father of Be...

• Chairemon of Egypt

  Chairemon was an anchorite of Scetis, the great desert south-west of the Nile delta, at the turn of the fourth and fifth centuries. What the...

• Charisimus and Neophytus

  Charisimus and Neophytus were the two household servants who attended the young pagan noblewoman Anthusa on her flight from Seleucia to Tars...

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  Charitina of Amisus

  Charitina of Amisus (†304) was a young virgin-martyr of Pontus on the Black Sea coast: an orphan brought up as his own daughter by the Chris...

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  Chariton the Confessor

  Chariton the Confessor (†c. 350) was a citizen of Iconium who suffered torture for Christ under the emperor Aurelian, survived, and became t...

• Christina of Persia

  Christina (fourth century) was a martyr of Persia, a young woman who was scourged to death for confessing her faith in Christ during one of...

• Christina of Tyre

  Christina was, the Greek passion says, the daughter of Urban, the Roman governor of Tyre in Phoenicia, and was shut up by him at the age of...

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  Christodoulos of Patmos

  Christodoulos (c. 1020 – 1093), baptised John, was a Byzantine monk and abbot of the eleventh century and the founder of one of the great ho...

• Christodoulos the Philosopher

  Christodoulos was a Georgian scholar-monk from the village of Sakara in Imereti, remembered in his own Church as a philosopher and a controv...

• Christopher of Antioch

  Christopher, Patriarch of Antioch from about 960 until 967, is the one medieval patriarch of the Antiochian see honoured as a martyr. A Chri...

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  Christopher of Lycia

  Christopher, the great-martyr of Lycia, is one of the most widely venerated and most strangely depicted saints of the whole Christian world....

• Christopher of Mela

  Christopher was born at Gazara, a place near Trebizond in Pontus, and governed the monastery of the Theotokos on Mount Mela — the Soumela of...

• Christopher of Palestine

  Christopher, called the Roman because he came to the East from Italy, was a sixth-century monk of the great Lavra of Saint Theodosius in the...

• Christos the Gardener

  Christos (Kristo) the Gardener (c. 1708 – 1748) was a new martyr of the Ottoman period — a simple Albanian market-gardener who died at Const...

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  Chrysanthus and Daria

  Chrysanthus and Daria (†c. 283) were a young married couple martyred at Rome in the reign of the emperor Numerian. Chrysanthus was the son o...

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  Chrysogonus of Aquileia

  Chrysogonus (†c. 304) was a learned and devout Roman Christian, the teacher and lifelong spiritual guide of the great-martyr Anastasia the D...

• Ciaran of Clonmacnoise

  Ciaran the Younger (c. 512 – c. 549), called in Irish mac in tSaír, "son of the wright", was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland and the f...

• Cissa of Crowland

  Cissa was an eighth-century hermit of Crowland in the English fenland, a disciple of St Guthlac and his successor as keeper of the hermitage...

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  Clement of Ancyra

  Clement of Ancyra (c. 258 – c. 312) was bishop of Ancyra in Galatia and one of the most enduring of all the martyrs of the synaxarion: the t...

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  Clement of Ohrid

  Clement of Ohrid (c. 840 – 916) was the chief of the disciples of Cyril and Methodius, the first bishop of the Slavs to preach, serve and wr...

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  Clement of Rome

  Clement was bishop of Rome at the end of the first century (episcopate c. 92–101) and one of the Apostolic Fathers — the generation taught d...

• Clement the Hymnographer

  Clement "the Poet" (ὁ Ποιητής) is one of the great canon-writers of the iconophile generation: a monk of the late eighth and early ninth cen...

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  Cleopatra and her son John

  Cleopatra was a widow of Edra near Mount Tabor in Palestine who, living in Egypt, witnessed the martyrdom of Varus (†c. 307), buried his bod...

• Colman Elo

  Colmán Elo (†611) is one of the great abbots of the generation after Columba, and by the tradition of the Martyrology of Donegal his sister'...

• Columba of Iona

  Columba (521–597) — Colum Cille, "the dove of the church" — is with Patrick and Brigid one of the three patrons of Ireland, and the enlighte...

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  Concordius of Spoleto

  Concordius was the son of a Roman presbyter named Gordian, raised in the faith and made subdeacon by the bishop of Rome; with his father's l...