Saints

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  Fabian of Rome

  Fabian was bishop of Rome for fourteen years, from 236 to 250 — the longest and one of the most consequential episcopates of the pre-Constan...

• Fantinus of Calabria

  Fantinus the Wonderworker (c. 927 – c. 1000) is the last and greatest of the Italo-Greek ascetics of Calabria: a Byzantine monk of the Greek...

• Synaxis of the Fathers of the Kiev Far Caves

  On August 28 the Church of the Slavic lands keeps the common commemoration of all the venerable fathers of the Kiev Caves Lavra whose relics...

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  The Fathers slain at Sinai and Raithu

  On January 14 the Church commemorates the desert fathers of the Sinai peninsula slain by raiding nomads — two companies of monks, martyred i...

• The Fathers slain at the Monastery of St Sabas

  On March 20 the Church commemorates the monks of the Great Lavra of Saint Sabas — the monastery of Mar Saba in the Judaean desert — who were...

• Faustus of Constantinople

  Faustus was the son of Dalmatus, the guardsman of Theodosius the Great who left the palace for the monastic life. Father and son entered the...

• Faustus the Martyr

  Faustus is a martyr of the persecution of Decius (249–251) of whom the synaxarion transmits almost nothing except the manner of his death, w...

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  Febronia of Nisibis

  Febronia was a young nun of the convent of the abbess Bryene at Nisibis on the Roman–Persian frontier, tortured to death about the year 304...

• Felicissimus and Agapitus

  Felicissimus and Agapitus were deacons of the Roman Church who were beheaded with their bishop Sixtus II in the cemetery of Praetextatus on...

• Felicitas of Rome and her Seven Sons

  Felicitas of Rome and her seven sons — Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martial — are among the most celebrated o...

• Felix and Augebert

  Felix and Augebert were English youths sold as slaves in Gaul and ransomed at the direction of St Gregory the Great, who had captive Anglo-S...

• Ferreolus and Ferrutio

  Ferreolus and Ferrutio — Ferréol and Ferjeux in French — were brothers, a presbyter and a deacon, sent from Lyons to evangelise the Sequani...

• Finbar of Cork

  Finbar (Bairre, Fionnbharr; †early 7th century) is the founder and first bishop of Cork, and one of the principal saints of Munster. The Iri...

• Finnian of Movilla

  Finnian of Movilla (†579), called Findbarr ("fair-head") in the Irish martyrologies and Winnin in Scotland, was abbot and bishop of Movilla...

• Five Martyrs of Ascalon

  Five martyrs, whose names the tradition has not preserved, suffered at Ascalon on the coast of Palestine and were dragged along the ground u...

• Five Martyrs of Nicomedia

  Five Christians, whose names the tradition has not kept, who were beheaded at Nicomedia in Bithynia and are commemorated together on June 16...

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  Five Martyrs of Sebaste

  The Five Martyrs of Sebaste — Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius and Orestes — suffered for Christ at Sebaste in Armenia during the pe...

• Five Virgin-Martyrs of Persia

  The five holy virgins Thecla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary and Ennatha were consecrated women of the Church in Persia, living near the village of...

• Five Virgins of Caesarea

  Five women of Caesarea in Palestine — Martha, Mary, Cyria, Valeria and Marcia — were catechised by a devout Christian, baptised, and thereaf...

• Flavian II of Antioch

  Flavian, Patriarch of Antioch from 498 to 512, is one of the two confessor-patriarchs whom the Church keeps on July 20, the other being his...

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  Flavian of Constantinople

  Flavian (died 449) was Archbishop of Constantinople from 446, a defender of the apostolic faith against the heresy of the archimandrite Euty...

• Florentius of Thessalonica

  Florentius of Thessalonica was a Christian of that city who publicly exposed the emptiness of idolatry, taught the faith of Christ to his fe...

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  Florus and Laurus

  Florus and Laurus were twin brothers and stone-masons, born at Byzantium and taught their craft — and their faith — by two Christian masters...

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  Florus of Amisus

  Florus (d. early 7th century) was a Byzantine nobleman who became bishop of Amisus on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor. Named for his fathe...

• Forty Martyrs of Rome

  A company of forty martyrs of the city of Rome, unnamed in the tradition, who were burned alive and are commemorated on June 16. The Greek s...

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  Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

  The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (†320) were forty soldiers — many of them men of the Twelfth "Thundering" Legion garrisoned in Lesser Armenia —...

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  Forty Virgin-Martyrs and Ammoun the Deacon

  The Forty Virgin-Martyrs were consecrated women of Thrace who, with the deacon Ammoun their teacher and spiritual father, suffered martyrdom...

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  Forty-Two Martyrs of Amorion

  The Forty-Two Martyrs of Amorion (†845) were the Byzantine commanders and officers taken captive when the great Phrygian city of Amorion — t...

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  Forty-five Martyrs of Nicopolis in Armenia

  The Forty-five Martyrs of Nicopolis are a company of Christians of Nicopolis in Lesser Armenia who suffered about the year 319, in the perse...

• Forty-four Martyrs of the Lavra of Saint Sabbas

  In the catastrophe that overtook Palestine about the year 614 — the Persian invasion under Chosroes II, the sack of Jerusalem, and the raidi...

• Frithestan of Winchester

  Frithestan (†932/933) was bishop of Winchester for some twenty-two years in the reigns of Edward the Elder and Æthelstan, consecrated in 909...

• Frontasius, Severinus, Severian and Silanus

  Four martyrs of Gaul, honoured as a company: Frontasius, Severinus, Severian and Silanus, sent to preach the word of God in the south of Gau...

• Fymbert

  Fymbert is commemorated on September 25 as a bishop in the west of Scotland, assigned to the seventh century. His record is a calendar line...