Saints

• Habakkuk the New Martyr

  Habakkuk was a Greek Christian — by the tradition a monk, and probably an Athonite — who bore witness to Christ and was put to death at Thes...

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  Habakkuk the Prophet

  Habakkuk is the eighth of the Twelve Minor Prophets, who prophesied in the kingdom of Judah in the last decades before the Babylonian captiv...

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  Haggai the Prophet

  Haggai was the tenth of the Twelve Minor Prophets and, with Zechariah, the prophet of the return from Babylon: in the second year of the Per...

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  Haralambos of Magnesia

  Haralambos, or Charalampus, "the Wonderworker" (c. 89 – c. 202), is one of the most beloved and widely venerated saints of the Greek world —...

• Heliconis of Thessalonica

  Heliconis was a Christian woman of Thessalonica who, in the middle of the third century, went of her own accord to Corinth during a persecut...

• Heliodorus and Dosa of Persia

  Heliodorus and Dosa are two of the numberless martyrs of the Church of Persia under Shapur II, commemorated together on August 20. The synax...

• Heliodorus of Magydos

  Heliodorus was a martyr of Magydos (Magydum) in Pamphylia, on the southern coast of Asia Minor, who suffered for Christ in the reign of the...

• Helladius the Hieromartyr

  Helladius is remembered in the books as a bishop "in the East" — that is, somewhere in the vast Roman Diocese of Oriens, the territory of th...

• Hellius of Egypt

  Hellius was a monk of fourth-century Egypt, given to a monastery as a child and brought up there in chastity and abstinence, who went out wh...

• Heraclius

  Heraclius is a martyr whose whole surviving record is one line of the Greek synaxarion for July 14: he was beaten to death with clubs. Neith...

• Herakleides and Myron of Tamassos

  Herakleides and Myron were bishops of Tamassos in Cyprus in the apostolic age. Herakleides, a Cypriot who guided the apostles Barnabas and M...

• Hereswith

  Hereswith (died c. 690) was a princess of the Northumbrian royal house of Deira — daughter of Hereric, King Edwin's nephew, and elder sister...

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  Herman of Alaska

  Herman of Alaska (c. 1756–1837) was a simple Russian monk of Valaam who became the great missionary and protector of the native peoples of A...

• Herman of Kazan

  Herman of Kazan (sixteenth century, died 1567) was a monk of the school of Joseph of Volokolamsk who became the first abbot of the Dormition...

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  Herman of Solovki

  Herman was the first of the three founders of Solovki to reach the islands and the last of them to die: an unlettered hermit of the Karelian...

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  Hermas, Patrobus, Linus, Gaius and Philologus of the Seventy

  Hermas, Patrobus, Linus, Gaius and Philologus were five apostles of the Seventy whom the Byzantine calendar commemorates together on Novembe...

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  Hermenegild

  Hermenegild (†585/586) was a prince of the Visigoths in Spain, elder son of the Arian king Leovigild, who forsook the Arianism of his people...

• Hermes of the Seventy

  Hermes was one of the Seventy Apostles whom the Lord sent out before his face (Luke 10:1), named by the Apostle Paul in the closing greeting...

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  Hermes, Serapion and Polyaenus

  Three Roman Christians of the second century, remembered together in a notice of a very few lines. Hermes, Serapion and Polyaenus were arres...

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  Hermias of Comana

  Hermias was an aged soldier — a veteran of the Roman armies — who confessed Christ at Comana and was tortured over many days and at last beh...

• Hermione of Ephesus

  Hermione (†c. 117) was one of the four virgin daughters of Philip the Deacon — the evangelist of the Seven — who "did prophesy" (Acts 21:9)....

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  Hermogenes of Moscow

  Hermogenes (c. 1530 – 1612) was Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia through the worst years of the Time of Troubles, and a hieromartyr whose...

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  Hermogenes of Tobolsk

  Hermogenes (Georgy Yefremovich Dolganev, born 1858) was a lawyer's student turned monk who became rector of the seminary of Tiflis, bishop o...

• Hermogenes the Martyr

  Hermogenes is one of the bare names of the Synaxarion of Constantinople, entered under July 24 after the great martyr Christina of Tyre and...

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  Hermolaus, Hermippus and Hermocrates

  Three priests of Nicomedia who survived the great burning of the Christians of that city in the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian, live...

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  Hermylus and Stratonicus

  Hermylus and Stratonicus (†c. 315) were martyred at Singidunum — the Roman fortress-town on the Danube that is now Belgrade — during the per...

• Hernin of Locarn

  Hernin was one of the many Christians of sixth-century Britain who crossed the sea to Brittany, where he lived as a hermit at the place that...

• Herodion, Agabus and Companions

  On April 8 the Church commemorates together six of the Seventy Apostles — Herodion, Agabus, Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon and Hermes — all of t...

• Heron the Philosopher

  Heron "the Philosopher" is one of the smallest entries in the Greek calendar: a name, an epithet, and a couplet of iambic verse under August...

• Hervé of Plouvien

  Blind from birth, the son of a bard, Hervé became the most loved of all the saints of Brittany after Yves — a singer and teacher who never t...

• Hesperus, Zoe, Cyriacus and Theodulus

  A whole household of slaves perfected together: Hesperus and his wife Zoe, with their two sons Cyriacus and Theodulus, servants of a rich pa...

• Hesychius the Horebite

  Hesychius the Horebite (6th century) was a monk of Mount Horeb, in the Sinai wilderness, whose whole recorded life is one story — told by Jo...

• Hesychius the Senator

  Hesychius (†c. 302) was a Roman senator and high official of the imperial palace under the emperor Maximian, martyred in the Diocletianic pe...

• Hesychius the Wonderworker

  Hesychius the Wonderworker (eighth century) was a monastic ascetic of Bithynia in Asia Minor, born at the coastal town of Adrineia and glori...

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  Hezekiah

  Hezekiah, thirteenth king of Judah and the son of the idolatrous Ahaz, is commemorated among the righteous of the Old Covenant as the king w...

• Hieria of Mesopotamia

  Hieria was a wealthy young widow of noble family in Mesopotamia who, in the last persecution, fell into conversation with the nun Febronia a...

• Hieromartyrs of Cherson

  The Hieromartyrs of Cherson — Basil, Ephraim, Capiton, Eugene, Aetherius, Agathodorus and Elpidius — were seven bishops who, across the four...

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  Hierotheus of Athens

  Hierotheus (1st century) is venerated as a member of the Athenian Areopagus converted by the apostle Paul, bishop of Athens, and the teacher...

• Hieu of Tadcaster

  Hieu (Bede's Heiu, †657 in the received Orthodox calendars) is remembered as the first woman in Northumbria to take the vows and habit of a...

• Hilarion of Saint Anne's

  Hilarion (†1804), in the world John of Heraklion in Crete, is one of the Athonite-prepared new-martyrs: a merchant's clerk in Constantinople...

• Hilarion of Tvali

  Hilarion, called Tvaleli from the monastery of Tvali, was one of the learned Georgian monks of the first half of the eleventh century, in wh...

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  Hilarion the Great

  Hilarion the Great (c. 291–371) was the founder of the monastic life in Palestine, as his master Anthony the Great was its founder in Egypt....

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  Hilarion the New of Dalmatia

  Hilarion, surnamed "the New" because he took the ancient Hilarion the Great for his model, was abbot of the monastery of the Dalmatians — th...

• Hilarion the New of Pelekete

  Hilarion, called "the New" to distinguish him from Hilarion the Great, was abbot of the monastery of Pelekete near the Hellespont in the eig...

• Hilary the Wonderworker

  Hilary the Wonderworker is a venerable father of the Greek synaxarion commemorated on May 4, of whom the tradition preserves a character rat...

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  Hippolytus of Rome

  Hippolytus of Rome, a bishop and martyr of the third century, is commemorated on January 30 together with a company of Roman martyrs — the o...

• Hippolytus the Jailer

  Hippolytus is the keeper of the prison in which the archdeacon Laurence was held at Rome in August 258. Set to guard the Church's most consp...

• Hippolytus, Concordia, Irenaeus and Abundius

  Hippolytus was, in the Roman passion that bears his name, the officer of the prison at Rome under Decius and Valerian who had charge of the...

• Honorius of Canterbury

  Honorius (†653) was the fifth Archbishop of Canterbury from Augustine, a Roman by birth and, Bede records, one of the disciples of Pope Greg...

• Horus of the Thebaid

  Horus — Abba Or of the Egyptian sources — was one of the great fathers of the fourth-century desert: a solitary who spent his early years in...