Saints

Julian of Mesopotamia (†c. 377), called in the Syriac tradition Julian Saba — "the Elder" — was a hermit of Osrhoene who lived for decades i...

Julian, Eunus, Besas and Macarius were martyrs of Alexandria in the persecution of the emperor Decius (c. 250), whose sufferings are recorde...

Juliana of Lazarevo (c. 1530–1604), called the Merciful, is the great Russian saint of the married state and of works of mercy — a noblewoma...

Juliana of Nicomedia (†c. 304) is the virgin-martyr who broke off her marriage to save her chastity for Christ. The daughter of a pagan nobl...

Juliana was the daughter of Prince Yuri Dubrovitsky-Olshansky, a Lithuanian-Rus' magnate of the early sixteenth century and a benefactor of...

Juliana (†21 December 1406) was the wife of Prince Simeon Mstislavich of Vyazma, and died at Torzhok defending her marriage and her chastity...

Julitta was a Christian woman of Caesarea in Cappadocia whose property was seized by a powerful pagan neighbour in the last persecution, und...

Julitta is one of the many names in the synaxarion of Constantinople of which nothing further has come down: she is styled hosia — venerable...

Julius and Julian were brothers, a presbyter and a deacon, Greeks by birth who in the fourth or fifth century carried the Gospel into the no...

Justa and Rufina were two Christian sisters of Hispalis — Seville — in Roman Baetica, poor women who made and sold earthenware in the market...

Justin the Philosopher (c. 100 – c. 165) is the first great apologist of the Church and the earliest Christian writer whose substantial work...

Justinian the Great (c. 482–565), emperor of the Romans from 527, and his consort the Empress Theodora (c. 500–548) are commemorated togethe...

Justus was a soldier of Rome to whom, the tradition says, the Life-giving Cross appeared in a vision; he believed in Christ, gave away every...

Under this title the Greek Menaion and the Slavic synaxaria keep, on June 1, the little company of Christians who were tried and beheaded at...

Juvenal (†458) governed the Church of Jerusalem for some thirty-eight years, from about 422 until his death, and is the hierarch under whom...

Juvenaly (John Feodorovich Hovorukhin, 1761 – c. 1796), hieromonk of the Valaam mission to Kodiak, is the protomartyr of America — the first...

Juventinus and Maximus were soldiers of the imperial guard of Julian the Apostate, martyred at Antioch about the year 363. When Julian, wint...