Saints

• Conon and his son Conon of Iconium

  Conon and his son, also named Conon, were martyrs of Iconium in Lycaonia (Asia Minor) in the third century, about the years 270–275. Left a...

• Conon of Isauria

  Conon of Isauria (first–second century) was an apostolic-age wonderworker of the village of Bidana near Isauria in Asia Minor, a region evan...

• Conon of Penthucla

  Conon (sixth century) was a Cilician who from his youth was a monk of the monastery of Penthucla near the Jordan, ordained presbyter and app...

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  Conon the Gardener

  Conon the Gardener (martyred about the year 251) was a simple and guileless labourer of the town of Mandon in Pamphylia — a native of Nazare...

• Constantia of Paphos

  Constantia is remembered for a single grief. She was a devout woman of the district of Paphos in Cyprus whose daughter and son-in-law had be...

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  Constantine Brâncoveanu and his sons

  Constantine Brâncoveanu (1654–1714), Prince of Wallachia for twenty-six years, was the greatest patron the Romanian Church ever had — builde...

• Constantine and Cosmas of Kosinsk

  Constantine and Cosmas were monks of the Khutyn monastery near Novgorod, of the generation formed by Barlaam of Khutyn and by Anthony of Dym...

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  Constantine and Helen

  Constantine the Great (c. 272–337) and his mother Helen (c. 248–330) are commemorated together on May 21 as Equal-to-the-Apostles — the only...

• Constantine of Constantinople

  Constantine I was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for not quite two years, from September 675 to his repose on 9 August 677 — the las...

• Constantine of Kiev

  Constantine, a Greek sent from Constantinople, was Metropolitan of Kiev from 1156 to 1158 in the bitterest crisis the young Church of Rus ha...

• Constantine of the Agarenes

  Constantine (†2 June 1819) was born a Muslim in the village of Ypsilometopo on Lesbos, and was healed in his blindness as a boy by the holy...

• Constantine, Michael and Theodore of Murom

  Constantine of Murom and his two sons Michael and Theodore are venerated as the baptisers of Murom, the last considerable pagan city of Rus'...

• Conval of Inchinnan

  Conval (Conwall, Convallus; †c. 630 in the calendar tradition) was an Irishman — the Aberdeen Breviary makes him a son of an Irish prince —...

• Coprius of Palestine

  Coprius of Palestine (†c. 530) was a monk of the great cenobium of St. Theodosius near Bethlehem whose whole life, from its first hour, belo...

• Cormac of Cashel

  Cormac mac Cuilennáin (c. 837–908) was at once bishop of Cashel and king of Munster — one of the most celebrated figures of early Irish hist...

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  Cornelius of Komel

  Cornelius of Komel (1457 – 19 May 1537) was the founder of the monastery of the Presentation of the Mother of God in the Komel forest south...

• Cornelius of Paleostrov

  Cornelius of Paleostrov was a monk of Pskov who at the end of the fourteenth century crossed into the Olonets country and became the founder...

• Cornelius of Pereyaslavl

  Born Konon to a merchant family of Pereyaslavl-Ryazan, he left his father's house at fifteen for the monastic life and settled at last in th...

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  Cornelius of the Pskov Caves

  Cornelius (1501–1570) was the great abbot of the Pskov Caves (Pskovo-Pechersky) Monastery, under whom that border-house rose to be one of th...

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  Cornelius the Centurion

  Cornelius the Centurion is the Roman officer of Acts 10 — a devout, alms-giving "God-fearer" of the Italian Cohort at Caesarea in Palestine...

• Cornutus of Iconium

  Cornutus, bishop of Iconium — the Slavic calendars call him Coronatus, bishop of Nicomedia, and the see is transmitted both ways — was marty...

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  Cosmas and Damian of Arabia

  Cosmas and Damian of Arabia (†c. 287) are the third of the three pairs of holy unmercenary physicians of that name whom the Byzantine calend...

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  Cosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia

  Cosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia (3rd–4th c.) are the first and greatest of the three pairs of holy unmercenary physicians of that name, and...

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  Cosmas and Damian of Rome

  Cosmas and Damian of Rome (†c. 284) are the second of the three pairs of holy unmercenary brother-physicians of that name whom the Byzantine...

• Cosmas of Chalcedon and Auxentius

  Cosmas, Bishop of Chalcedon, and his companion Auxentius were confessors of the holy icons in the iconoclast persecution. Cosmas, chosen bis...

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  Cosmas of Maiuma

  Cosmas of Maiuma (†c. 760), called the Hymnographer, the Melodist, and simply "the Poet," is with John of Damascus one of the two great mast...

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  Cosmas of Yakhroma

  Cosmas of Yakhroma (†1492) was a Russian monastic saint, founder and abbot of the Dormition monastery on the river Yakhroma near Vladimir. A...

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  Cosmas the Aetolian

  Cosmas the Aetolian (c. 1714–1779) was a monk of Philotheou on Mount Athos who left the Holy Mountain to spend the last twenty years of his...

• Cosmas the Hermit of Palestine

  Cosmas the eunuch was a hermit of the Lavra of Pharan, the oldest of the monastic settlements of the Judaean desert, in the sixth century. H...

• Cronides, Leontius and Serapion

  Cronides (Chronides), Leontius and Serapion were Christians of Egypt who suffered martyrdom at Alexandria in the third century. Refusing to...

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  Cuthbert of Lindisfarne

  Cuthbert (c. 634 – 687) was the greatest saint of the early English Church and the wonderworker of Northumbria — a shepherd boy who, seeing...

• Cynfarch

  Cynfarch (in later English lists "Kingsmark") is a Welsh saint of the fifth century whose feast of September 8 stands in the old Welsh calen...

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  Cyprian and Justina

  Cyprian and Justina (†c. 304) are the protagonists of one of the most famous of all passiones: Cyprian, the great sorcerer of Antioch, hired...

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  Cyprian of Carthage

  Cyprian, bishop of Carthage from 248/249 until his beheading on 14 September 258, is the greatest Latin churchman of the age before Constant...

• Cyprian of Suzdal

  Blessed Cyprian was a fool-for-Christ of the Suzdal country who pursued his struggle in solitude on an island at the confluence of the river...

• Cyprian the New of Koutloumousiou

  Cyprian the New was a hieromonk of the Holy Mountain, of the cell of Saint George dependent on the monastery of Koutloumousiou, who was behe...

• Cyprian the Righteous of Antioch

  Cyprian is a saint of the Greek synaxarion of May 30, entered with two facts only: that he was of Antioch, and that he reposed in peace — th...

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  Cyrenia and Juliana

  Cyrenia and Juliana (†c. 305) were two Christian women of Cilicia martyred by fire in the persecution of Maximian Galerius. Cyrenia was from...

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  Cyriacus the Hermit

  Cyriacus the Hermit (448–556) was one of the great anchorites of the Judean desert: a Corinthian who came to Palestine at eighteen, was clot...

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  Cyricus and Julitta

  Julitta was a Christian widow of noble family at Iconium in Lycaonia who fled the persecution of Diocletian with her infant son Cyricus — th...

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  Cyril of Alexandria

  Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 – 444) was Archbishop of Alexandria and the greatest of the Church's Christological doctors — the "Seal of the F...

• Cyril of Antioch

  Cyril was bishop of Antioch the Great at the turn of the fourth century — the immediate predecessor of the persecution, whose episcopate end...

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  Cyril of Gortyna

  Cyril was bishop of Gortyna, the metropolis of Roman Crete and the see founded by the Apostle Titus, and he was martyred there as a very old...

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  Cyril of Jerusalem

  Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313 – 386) was Archbishop of Jerusalem for some thirty-five years and one of the great catechists and teachers of the...

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  Cyril of Novoezersk

  Cyril of Novoezersk (c. 1450s – 1532) was a Russian monastic founder and wonderworker of the northern forests, disciple of Cornelius of Kome...

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  Cyril of Turov

  Cyril, Bishop of Turov, is the greatest preacher of Kievan Rus and one of the finest writers in the whole of Old East Slavonic literature —...

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  Cyril of White Lake

  Cyril of White Lake (1337–1427) is the greatest of the founders of the "Northern Thebaid" and, after Sergius of Radonezh, the most influenti...

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  Cyril the Philosopher

  Cyril (c. 826 – 869), born Constantine at Thessalonica and known in his own day as the Philosopher, was the Byzantine scholar-monk who, with...

• Cyrilla of Cyrene

  Cyrilla was a widow of Cyrene in the Libyan Pentapolis who was put to death for Christ in the last of the imperial persecutions, about the y...

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  Cyrus and John

  Cyrus and John (†c. 311) are among the most beloved of the holy unmercenaries — the anargyroi, physicians who healed without payment in the...