Saints

• Eanswythe of Folkestone

  Eanswythe was a princess of Kent, granddaughter of Æthelberht, the first Christian king of the English, and daughter of King Eadbald; and sh...

• Edith of Wilton

  Edith (Eadgyth, c. 961–984) was the daughter of King Edgar of England and of St Wilfrida of Wilton, born of the union the king made when he...

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  Edward the Martyr

  Edward the Martyr (c. 962 – 978) was King of the English for less than three years, and a saint of the undivided Church of the West before t...

• Egelred of Crowland

  Egelred (†c. 870) is commemorated as a monk of Crowland Abbey in the English fenland, martyred with his abbot Theodore and many of the breth...

• Elesbaan, King of Ethiopia

  Elesbaan (Kaleb Ella Asbeha), king of Aksum in Ethiopia in the early sixth century, is venerated as a righteous ruler for his defence of the...

• Eleutherius and Leonidas

  Eleutherius and Leonidas are two young martyrs of the Greek synaxarion, cast into the fire together with a number of infants for refusing to...

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  Eleutherius of Illyricum

  Eleutherius was a young bishop of Illyricum martyred at Rome under the emperor Hadrian (117–138), traditionally about the year 120. Born of...

• Eleutherius the Cubicularius

  Eleutherius was a cubicularius — a chamberlain of the imperial bedchamber — at the court of Byzantium in the last age of the persecutions, a...

• Elias Ardounis

  Elias Ardounis (†1686) was a new-martyr of the Ottoman period from Kalamata in the Peloponnese. A barber by trade and a man respected by Tur...

• Elias I of Jerusalem

  Elias, Patriarch of Jerusalem from 494 to 516, was an Arab by birth and an Egyptian monk by formation, who came to Palestine as a refugee fr...

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  Elias of Murom

  Elias of Murom (died c. 1188) was a monk of the Near Caves of the Kiev Caves Lavra, remembered in the Church as a wonderworker and, in Russi...

• Elias the Hermit of Egypt

  Elias the Hermit was an Egyptian ascetic of the fourth century who spent seventy-five years in solitary struggle in a cave on a desolate mou...

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  Elijah the Prophet

  Elijah the Tishbite is the greatest of the prophets before the Forerunner, and the one figure of the Old Covenant whom the Church calls an a...

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  Elisha of Suma

  Elisha was a monk of the Solovki monastery on the White Sea, remembered for one thing: the manner of his death. Taken mortally ill while fis...

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  Elisha the Prophet

  Elisha son of Shaphat, called in Greek Elissaios and in the Slavonic books Elisei, was the disciple, servant and successor of the Prophet El...

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  Elizabeth the New Martyr

  Elizabeth Feodorovna (1864–1918), born a princess of Hesse and by Rhine and a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, married the Grand Duke Serge...

• Elizabeth the Wonderworker

  Elizabeth the Wonderworker was an ascetic and abbess of the convent of the Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian at Constantinople, born at H...

• Emilian of Cyzicus

  Emilian the Confessor (died c. 820) was bishop of Cyzicus, on the Sea of Marmara, and a bold defender of the holy icons in the second iconoc...

• Emilian of Dorostolum

  Emilian was a young man of servile condition in Dorostolum (Durostorum) on the lower Danube — the Roman legionary city that is now Silistra...

• Emilian of Rome

  Emilian of Rome — a Roman by birth, called Victorinus in the world — is remembered as a striking icon of repentance in old age. Having lived...

• Emilian of Trevi

  Emilian was an Armenian who became the first bishop of Trebiae (Trevi) in Umbria and died a martyr under Diocletian, about the year 300. Orp...

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  Emmelia

  Emmelia (late third century – c. 375) was the mother of one of the most remarkable households of saints in the history of the Church. Hersel...

• Enghenedl of Anglesey

  Enghenedl (7th century by the calendar under which he is commemorated) is the patron of Llanynghenedl — "the church of Enghenedl" — in weste...

• Ennatha, Valentina and Paula

  Ennatha, Valentina and Paula were three Christian virgins of Palestine martyred at Caesarea in the year 308, during the Great Persecution un...

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  Ephraim of Antioch

  Ephraim, a Syrian of Amida, was the imperial Count of the East (comes Orientis) under Anastasius and Justin — a soldier and administrator fa...

• Ephraim of Nea Makri

  Ephraim is a fifteenth-century Greek monk of Mount Amomon above the modern Nea Makri in Attica, held to have been tortured to death by Turki...

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  Ephraim of Perekom

  Ephraim of Perekom (1412–1492) was a monastic founder of the Novgorod land, the builder of the Perekom monastery of St Nicholas on the marsh...

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  Ephraim of Pereyaslavl

  Ephraim of the Kiev Caves (†c. 1098) was a courtier of the Great Prince Izyaslav of Kiev who left the prince's service to become a monk unde...

• Ephraim of Serbia

  Ephraim (c. 1311 – 1399/1400) was a Bulgarian hesychast who became Patriarch of the Serbs twice, and both times against his will. Trained in...

• Ephraim of Smolensk

  Ephraim was the disciple of Abramius of Smolensk, and he is remembered for one act: he wrote his teacher's Life. That book — composed in the...

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  Ephrem the Syrian

  Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306–373) was a deacon of Edessa and the greatest of the Syriac Fathers — poet, theologian, and teacher, whom the tradi...

• Epicharis of Rome

  Epicharis (†c. 300) was a Christian woman of Rome — the synaxarion tradition styles her the wife of a senator — martyred in the reign of Dio...

• Epictetus and Astion

  Epictetus, a priest and monk, and Astion, the young nobleman he converted, are the protomartyrs of the land that is now Romania: two ascetic...

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  Epimachus of Pelusium

  Epimachus of Pelusium (†c. 250) was an Egyptian martyr of the Decian persecution. A native of Egypt, he lived for a long time as a solitary...

• Epiphanius of Constantinople

  Epiphanius governed the Church of Constantinople for fifteen years and three months, from 25 February 520 to 5 June 535 — the long, quiet pa...

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  Epiphanius of Cyprus

  Epiphanius (c. 310/320 – 403), Bishop of Constantia (ancient Salamis) and metropolitan of Cyprus for some thirty-six years, is the great her...

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  Erasmus of Formia

  Erasmus (†c. 303), bishop of Formia in Campania, is one of the most widely venerated and least securely documented of the martyrs of the gre...

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  Erasmus of the Kiev Caves

  Erasmus of the Kiev Caves (†c. 1160) was a monk of the Near Caves of the Kiev Caves Lavra whose whole substance went into the adorning of th...

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  Eroteis of Cappadocia

  Eroteis (Erotheis) was a virgin martyr who was put to death by fire; the calendars that transmit her memory place her in Cappadocia. She is...

• Ethelburgh of Lyminge

  Ethelburgh (Æthelburh, called Tate) was a princess of Kent — daughter of Ethelbert, the first Christian king of the English, and Queen Berth...

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  Etheldreda of Ely

  Etheldreda — Æthelthryth in her own tongue, Audrey in the mouths of later Englishmen — was a princess of the royal house of East Anglia who...

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  Eudocia of Heliopolis

  Eudocia of Heliopolis (†c. 152–170) was a wealthy Samaritan woman of Heliopolis in Phoenicia — the great sun-city the Romans called Baalbek...

• Eudocimus of Cappadocia

  Eudocimus was a young Cappadocian nobleman and imperial official of the reign of the iconoclast emperor Theophilus (829–842), who was made g...

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  Eudoxius, Zeno and Macarius

  Eudoxius was a high military commander under Diocletian and his successors, a secret Christian who laid down his rank rather than sacrifice...

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  Eugene and Macarius of Antioch

  Eugene and Macarius were presbyters of the Church of Antioch who, under the emperor Julian the Apostate (361–363), boldly reproached him to...

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  Eugene, Candidus, Valerian and Aquila

  Eugene, Candidus, Valerian and Aquila were four Christians of Trebizond on the Black Sea coast of Pontus, martyred in the persecution of Dio...

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  Eugenia of Rome

  Eugenia of Rome (†c. 262) is the venerable-martyr commemorated on the Eve of the Nativity. A senator's daughter reared at Alexandria, where...

• Eugenios the Aetolian

  Eugenios was a monk, priest and above all a teacher, who spent the middle of the seventeenth century founding schools in the poorest and mos...

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  Eulalia of Barcelona

  Eulalia was a girl of about thirteen or fourteen from a Christian family of the country outside Barcinona — Roman Barcelona — who, when the...

• Eulalius the Hierarch

  Eulalius is a bishop of whom the Greek synaxarion transmits nothing but his name, his order and the manner of his end: he reposed in peace....