Saints

• Lampadus of Irenopolis

  Lampadus was a hermit of Irenopolis in Isauria, in the mountainous interior of southern Asia Minor, who is placed by the synaxaria in the te...

• Laodicius the Jailer

  Laodicius was the keeper of the prison at Trajanopolis in Thrace during the imprisonment of the virgin-martyr Glyceria, about the year 177....

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  Laurence of Kaluga

  Blessed Laurence of Kaluga (†10 August 1515) was a fool-for-Christ who lived in a hut on a wooded hill above the Oka, beside the wooden chur...

• Laurence of Komel

  Laurence of Komel (†16 May 1548) was a disciple of Cornelius of Komel and, from 1538, abbot of his monastery of the Presentation in the Kome...

• Laurence of Pelion

  The Greek books of May 10 carry, after the Apostle Simon and the martyrs of Lentini, a notice of five words: "Our venerable father Laurence...

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  Laurence of Rome

  Laurence, archdeacon of the Roman Church, was put to death on 10 August 258, in the persecution of the emperor Valerian, four days after his...

• Laurence of Turov

  Laurence (†1194) was a monk of the Kiev Caves monastery who lived as a recluse in strict enclosure, was granted the gift of healing — especi...

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  Lazar of Serbia

  Lazar Hrebeljanović (c. 1329–1389) was the ruler who held the Serbian lands together in the generation after the collapse of the empire of S...

• Lazarus of Mount Galesius

  Lazarus the Wonderworker (c. 981–1053) was a Byzantine monk and stylite who became the great ascetic of Mount Galesion, a barren height nort...

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  Lazarus of Murom

  Lazarus of Murom (c. 1286 – 1391) was a Greek monk from Constantinople who became one of the first apostles of monasticism in the far Russia...

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  Lazarus of the Four Days

  Lazarus of Bethany, "the Four-Days-Dead" (ὁ τετραήμερος) and "the friend of Christ," is the man whom the Lord raised from the tomb four days...

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  Lazarus the Iconographer

  Lazarus the Iconographer (c. 810 – c. 857) was a monk, priest, and painter of holy images at Constantinople who confessed the veneration of...

• Leo and Paregorius

  Leo and Paregorius were two friends and fellow-Christians martyred at Patara in Lycia, most likely in the persecution under Valerian about t...

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  Leo of Catania

  Leo the Wonderworker (c. 703 – c. 780) was bishop of Catania in Sicily, an island then still within the Byzantine Empire. Born at Ravenna of...

• Leo of Mandra

  Leo "of the Mandra" is one of the many saints of the Byzantine calendar who survive in a single line. The Synaxarion of Constantinople comme...

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  Leo the Great

  Leo the Great (c. 400 – 461) was Pope of Rome from 440 to 461, one of the greatest of the Roman pontiffs and a Father of the whole Church. A...

• Leonid of Ustnedumsk

  Leonid was a peasant farmer who ploughed the land until he was fifty, and then, on the strength of a dream he twice tried to disregard, beca...

• Leonidas of Corinth and Companions

  Leonidas and a company of Christian women with him — Chariessa, Nike, Galina, Kallis, Nunechia, Basilissa and Theodora — were martyred at Co...

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  Leontius of Jerusalem

  Leontios of Jerusalem was a Phrygian monk who became abbot of the great monastery of Saint John the Theologian on Patmos and then, unwilling...

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  Leontius of Rostov

  Leontius was the first successful bishop of Rostov and the effective apostle of the north-east of Rus'. A monk of the Kiev Caves, of the gen...

• Leontius of Rădăuți

  Leontius (in the world and in his first monastic tonsure, Lawrence) was a priest-monk of northern Moldavia who founded a hermitage near his...

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  Leontius of Tripoli

  Leontius, a Greek by birth and an officer of the Roman army stationed at Tripoli in Phoenicia — the coastal city that is now Ṭarābulus in Le...

• Leontius of the Kiev Caves

  Leontius, called the Canonarch, was a boy or very young monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra in the fourteenth century who was given the office of c...

• Leontius the Athonite

  Leontius, born at Argos in the Peloponnese in 1520, took the monastic habit at seventeen in a hermitage of the Argolid, and after the Turkis...

• Leontius the Shepherd

  A monk called Leontius the Shepherd, commemorated in the Greek books on June 18 — the fourth Leontius of a day that is crowded with them — o...

• Leontius, Dometius, Terentius and Domninus

  Leontius, Dometius, Terentius and Domninus are four martyrs commemorated together in the Greek synaxarion of October 16, in the company of t...

• Leucius of Brindisi

  Leucius the Confessor was an Alexandrian monk, born Eutropius, who was sent — the Life says by a direct command of Christ — from Egypt to th...

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  Liberius of Rome

  Liberius was bishop of Rome from 352 to 366, through the worst years of the Arian pressure, and the Orthodox Church commemorates him as a co...

• Lioba

  Lioba (Leoba; †782, the year variously given 779–782) was an English nun of Wimborne, kinswoman of St Boniface on his mother's side, whom th...

• Lolan of Kincardine

  Lolan (Lolanus, †c. 1034 in the calendar tradition) is a saint of Scotland honoured at Kincardine-in-Menteith, near Stirling, where the old...

• Lollianus the Martyr

  Lollianus is one of the names that the Synaxarion of Constantinople has carried down without a life attached. He stands second among the thr...

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  Longinus the Centurion

  Longinus the Centurion (1st century) is, in the tradition of the Church, the Roman officer who commanded the execution detail on Golgotha an...

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  Luarsab II of Georgia

  Luarsab II (1587–1622), of the Bagrationi house, was king of Kartli from boyhood, a ruler remembered for learning and piety as much as for t...

• Lucia the Virgin and Rixius Varus

  Lucia was a virgin of Campania in southern Italy, consecrated to Christ from her youth, who was carried off as a captive by a Roman officer...

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  Lucian of Antioch

  Lucian (c. 240–312) was a presbyter of Antioch, founder of the Antiochene school of biblical study and author of a critical recension of the...

• Lucian of Beauvais

  Lucian, first bishop of Beauvais (Bellovacum) in northern Gaul, is one of the apostolic missionaries of the Gallo-Belgic country and the onl...

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  Lucian of the Kiev Caves

  Lucian was a priest-monk of the Kiev Caves monastery who suffered martyrdom under Batu Khan about the year 1243, in the devastation of Kiev...

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  Lucillian and his Companions

  On June 3 the Church keeps six martyrs of a single passion: Lucillian, an aged pagan priest of Nicomedia who in his old age was persuaded of...

• Lucius the Senator

  Lucius is a martyr of the councillor class commemorated on August 20, of whom the synaxaria preserve his rank, his manner of death, and — wi...

• Lucius the Soldier

  Lucius is a soldier-martyr commemorated in the Greek synaxaria on August 14 of whom the tradition preserves a single sentence: he was martyr...

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  Lucy of Syracuse

  Lucy (Lucia) of Syracuse (c. 283–304) was a virgin-martyr of Sicily, put to death in her native city during the persecution of Diocletian. A...

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  Ludmila of Bohemia

  Ludmila (c. 860–921) was the first Christian princess of Bohemia, wife of Bořivoj I, and the grandmother and first teacher of Wenceslaus (Vá...

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  Luke of Simferopol

  Luke of Simferopol — in the world Valentin Felixovich Voino-Yasenetsky (1877–1961) — was one of the foremost surgeons of the Russian twentie...

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  Luke of Steiris

  Luke of Steiris (c. 896 – c. 953), called the Younger and Luke of Hellas, was the most beloved Greek ascetic-saint of the tenth century and...

• Luke of Taormina

  Luke of Taormina (died c. 820) was a Sicilian ascetic of the age when the island was still Byzantine and its monasticism flourishing. A nati...

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  Luke the Evangelist

  Luke the Evangelist (first century, reposed in Boeotia at the age of 84 by the most ancient account) is the "beloved physician" of Colossian...

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  Luke the New Stylite

  Luke the New Stylite (c. 879–979) was a soldier of the Byzantine army who became the last of the great pillar-saints of the East. Having sur...

• Lupus of Thessalonica

  Lupus was the servant (in the Greek books, the slave) of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica, and stood by his master when the soldie...

• Lydia of Philippi

  Lydia was a merchant of purple from Thyatira in Asia Minor, settled in the Roman colony of Philippi in Macedonia, and a God-fearer among the...

• Lythan

  Lythan (in the older Welsh form Elyddon) is a saint of south Wales known entirely from a church dedication: the church of St Lythan's — Llwy...