Saints

• Mabyn

  Mabyn (Mabena, Mabenna; 5th century by the calendar under which she is commemorated) is a virgin of Cornwall, patroness of the church and pa...

• Mac Nisse of Connor

  Mac Nisse (Latin Macanisius, died c. 514) is the founder-patron of the see of Connor in what is now County Antrim, Ireland — by tradition it...

• MacCallin of Lusk

  MacCallin (Mac Cuilinn, Macculind) was bishop of Lusk (Lusca) in the north of the present County Dublin, one of the founding generation of t...

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  Macarius of Alexandria

  Macarius of Alexandria (c. 295 – c. 395), called "the Younger" and "of the City" to distinguish him from his elder friend and namesake Macar...

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  Macarius of Kalyazin

  Macarius of Kalyazin (c. 1400–1483) was one of the great monastic founders of fifteenth-century Russia — a wonderworker of the Tver land who...

• Macarius of Kiev

  Macarius, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus (1495–1497), was killed by a Tatar raiding party at the altar, in the middle of the Divine Liturg...

• Macarius of Kios

  Macarius of Kios (†1590) was a new-martyr of the Ottoman period: born Manuel at Kios in Bithynia, he was betrayed to the Turkish judge at Pr...

• Macarius of Oredezhsk

  Macarius was a disciple of Alexander of Svir (†1533), the great luminary of the monastic north, and one of the several of that elder's spiri...

• Macarius of Pelekete

  Macarius was abbot of the monastery of Pelekete on the Asian shore of the Sea of Marmara, and one of the confessors of the second Iconoclasm...

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  Macarius of Serbia

  Macarius Sokolović was the hierarch who, in 1557, brought the Patriarchate of Peć back into existence after nearly a century in which the Se...

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  Macarius of Unzha

  Macarius (1349–1444) was the greatest of the colonising monks of the middle Volga: a boy of Nizhny Novgorod who ran away at twelve to be ton...

• Macarius the Faster of the Kiev Caves

  Macarius the Faster (twelfth century) was a monk and deacon of the Kiev Caves Lavra, whose relics rest in the Near (Anthony's) Caves. He is...

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  Macarius the Great

  Macarius the Great (c. 300 – c. 391), called "the Egyptian" and "the Elder" to distinguish him from his younger namesake Macarius of Alexand...

• Macarius the Roman of Novgorod

  Macarius the Roman was a Westerner — by the tradition a young man of a wealthy Roman family, born towards the end of the fifteenth century —...

• Macedonius the Hermit of Syria

  Macedonius (†c. 420), surnamed Kritophagos, "the barley-eater," was one of the great ascetics of the Syrian wilderness at the turn of the fo...

• Macedonius the Martyr

  Macedonius is a martyr of the Greek synaxarion of June 28, named without country, date, or account of his passion. The commemoration stands...

• Machan of Campsie

  Machan (Machanus; date unknown) is a saint of Scotland buried at Campsie in Lennox, where the Aberdeen Martyrology commemorates him on Septe...

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  Macrina the Younger

  Macrina (c. 327 – 19 July 379) was the eldest child of a Cappadocian household that gave the Church more saints than any other, and the hidd...

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  Macrobius, Gordian and their companions

  Macrobius, Gordian, Elias, Zoticus, Lucian and Valerian were martyrs of the last persecution in the East, under the emperor Licinius (c. 320...

• Magnus of Füssen

  Magnus (Magnoald, Mang) is the apostle of the Allgäu, the Alpine country of south-western Bavaria, and founder of the monastery of Füssen on...

• Magnus the Venerable

  Magnus is an ascetic of the Greek synaxarion of June 28 of whom one thing only is recorded, and it is the thing the Church thought worth rec...

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  Major of Gaza

  Major (Greek Μαΐωρ) was a martyr of Gaza in Palestine, put to death under scourging in one of the persecutions of the early fourth century....

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  Malachi the Prophet

  Malachi (fifth century before Christ) is the last of the twelve Minor Prophets, and his short book stands last of all the prophets in the Ch...

• Malus the Hermit

  Malus (or Malos) is a venerable hermit known to the Church from a single line of the Greek synaxarion for October 16, where his memory is ke...

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  Mamas of Caesarea

  Mamas of Caesarea (c. 260–c. 275) is one of the great-martyrs of the early Church: born in prison to the martyred confessors Theodotus and R...

• Manuel of Crete

  Manuel the Cretan (†1792) was a new martyr of the Ottoman period. Born a Christian in Crete in the eighteenth century, he was taken captive...

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  Manuel, George and the 377 Martyrs of Bulgaria

  The Three Hundred and Seventy-Seven Martyrs of Bulgaria — also called the Martyrs of Adrianople — were a company of Christians of the Byzant...

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  Manuel, Sabel and Ismael

  Three brothers of a noble Persian house — a pagan father, a Christian mother who had them baptised in secret — who entered the royal service...

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  Marana and Cyra

  Marana and Cyra (†c. 450) were two well-born women of Beroea in Syria — the city that is now Aleppo — who forsook wealth, marriage, and the...

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  Marcella of Rome

  Marcella of Rome (c. 325 – 410) was a noble Roman widow who turned her palace on the Aventine into one of the first houses of ascetic and mo...

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  Marcellinus of Rome

  Marcellinus was bishop of Rome from 296 to 304, and his pontificate ended inside the Great Persecution of Diocletian. The Byzantine synaxari...

• Marcellus and Anthony

  Marcellus and Anthony were two early martyrs commemorated on March 1, of whom the synaxarion preserves only that, having confessed Christ, t...

• Marcellus and Codratus

  Marcellus and Codratus are two martyrs of the Byzantine synaxaria commemorated on May 22, of whom nothing is transmitted but their names and...

• Marcellus of Apamea

  Marcellus, bishop of Apamea on the Orontes in Syria Secunda, is the hierarch whom the historian Theodoret of Cyrrhus remembered as the model...

• Marcellus of Rome

  Marcellus was bishop of Rome for a little under two years at the very end of the Great Persecution, about 308 to 309, taking up a see that h...

• Marcellus of the Akoimetoi

  Marcellus (c. 400 – c. 485) was the third abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (the Akoimetoi), the Constantinopolitan community wh...

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  Marcian and Martyrius

  Marcian and Martyrius were two clergy of the Great Church of Constantinople — Marcian a reader, Martyrius a subdeacon — who served together...

• Marcian of Cyrrhus

  Marcian of Cyrrhus (c. 320–388) was one of the foremost hermits of the Syrian desert in the fourth century, and among the ascetics whom Theo...

• Marcian of Iconium

  Marcian was a young Christian of Iconium — the city of Lycaonia where Paul and Barnabas preached and where the Church had stood since the ap...

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  Marcian of Syracuse

  Marcian, the first bishop of Syracuse in Sicily, is venerated as a disciple of the Apostle Peter sent to preach in the West, and as a hierom...

• Marcian the Oikonomos

  Marcian (early fifth century – c. 471) was a presbyter and the oikonomos (steward, treasurer, and administrator) of the Great Church of Cons...

• Marcian, Nicander and Companions

  Ten Christians of Egypt — Marcian, Nicander, Hyperechius, Apollonius, Leonidas, Arius, Gorgias, Selenias, Irenaeus and Pambo — who suffered...

• Marciana the Empress

  Marciana (died about 523/524) was the wife of the emperor Justin I (reigned 518–527) and empress of the Romans, remembered by the Church for...

• Mares the Singer

  Mares the Singer (c. 344 – c. 430) was a Syrian ascetic of the region of Cyrrhus, one of the solitaries whom Bishop Theodoret of Cyrrhus kne...

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  Maria Skobtsova

  Mother Maria — Elizaveta Pilenko, twice married, poet of the Petersburg Symbolist circle, briefly mayor of Anapa in the revolution, and from...

• Maria of Diveyevo

  Maria Zakharovna Fedina (1870–1931) was the last of the four blazhennye — blessed fools for Christ — of the Seraphim-Diveyevo convent, the g...

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  Mariamne

  Mariamne (first century) was the sister of the holy Apostle Philip, one of the Twelve, and a fellow-labourer in his apostolic mission. A vir...

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  Marina of Antioch

  Marina — known in the West as Margaret — is the shepherd-girl of Antioch in Pisidia, daughter of a pagan priest, who was catechised in secre...

• Marinus of Caesarea

  Marinus was a soldier of the Roman army at Caesarea in Palestine who, in the reign of Valerian and Gallienus and about the year 260, was abo...

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  Marinus of Rome

  Marinus (†c. 283) was a young Roman of senatorial family who confessed Christ in the City itself in the reign of the emperor Carinus and was...