Saints

• Kaikhosro the Georgian

  Kaikhosro was a Georgian who was tortured to death by Shah Abbas I in 1612 for refusing to give up the veneration of the holy icons. His mem...

• Kalliope

  Kalliope was a Christian maiden of the middle of the third century, in the reign of Decius, remarkable — as her name says — for beauty, and...

• Kanides of Cappadocia

  Kanides was a Cappadocian ascetic of the fifth century whose whole recorded life is one extreme: he entered a cave on a mountain at the age...

• Karion and Zachariah of Egypt

  Karion and Zachariah were a father and son who lived as monks in the Egyptian desert of Scetis in the fourth century, and whose sayings are...

• Kassiani the Hymnographer

  Kassiani (Kassia, Ikasia; c. 805/810 – c. 865) is the one woman whose hymnography stands, under her own name, in the received liturgical boo...

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  Kerkyra and the martyrs of Corfu

  Kerkyra was, by the received account, the daughter of Kerkyllinos, the ruler of the island of Corfu in the first century, who confessed Chri...

• Kindeas of Pamphylia

  Kindeas (Cindeus) was a presbyter of the village of Talmenia in the territory of Side in Pamphylia, put to death by fire in the persecution...

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  Kuksha of the Kiev Caves

  Kuksha was a monk-priest of the Kiev Caves monastery in the early twelfth century who went out to the Vyatichi — the last openly pagan Slavi...

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  Kyranna of Thessalonica

  Kyranna (†1751) was a young Greek woman of the village of Ossa (in Turkish Vysoka), in the region of Langadas near Thessalonica, who suffere...

• Kyriake, Kaleria and Mary of Caesarea

  Kyriake, Kaleria — the name is also transmitted as Valeria — and Mary were three women of Caesarea in Palestine who turned from paganism to...

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  Kyriaki of Nicomedia

  Kyriaki — "she of the Lord's Day" — was the only child of a prosperous Christian couple of Nicomedia who had prayed long for a child and nam...