Saints

• Marinus the Elder

  Marinus the Elder (†c. 304) was an aged Christian of Cilicia in Asia Minor who confessed Christ in the great persecution of Diocletian, befo...

• Marinus, Martha, Audifax and Abbacum

  Marinus was a nobleman of Persia who, with his wife Martha and their two sons Audifax and Abbacum, distributed his goods to the poor and cam...

• Mark and Mokianus

  Two martyrs of the fourth century, arrested as Christians and pressed by the eparch Maximus to sacrifice to the idols. They refused, confess...

• Mark of Apollonias

  Mark of Apollonias — the apostle of the Seventy whom the New Testament names as "the cousin of Barnabas" (Colossians 4:10) — is counted by t...

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  Mark of Arethusa

  Mark, bishop of Arethusa in Syria, and Cyril, a deacon of Heliopolis, were confessors who suffered cruelly under Julian the Apostate. Mark,...

• Mark of Chios

  Mark, a new martyr of the Ottoman period, was a young man of Smyrna who in a weak hour denied Christ and professed Islam, repented bitterly,...

• Mark of Crete

  Mark the Cretan is a new martyr of the return: a Cretan boy taken to Smyrna after his mother's death, forced into Islam as a child in conseq...

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  Mark of Ephesus

  Mark of Ephesus (1392–1444), Mark Eugenikos, Metropolitan of Ephesus, is honoured by the Orthodox Church as the Pillar of Orthodoxy — the on...

• Mark the Ascetic

  Mark the Ascetic — also called Mark the Faster and Mark the Monk (fourth– fifth century) — was one of the great spiritual teachers of the de...

• Mark the Athenian

  Mark, called "the Athenian" from his native city, is honoured as one of the most extreme of the desert solitaries: the tradition tells that...

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  Mark the Evangelist

  Mark the Evangelist — the John Mark of the Acts of the Apostles, son of that Mary of Jerusalem in whose house the first community gathered a...

• Markella of Chios

  Markella was a young Christian woman of Volissos, in the north-west of the island of Chios, killed by her own father in defence of her virgi...

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  Maron the Hermit

  Maron (mid-fourth century – c. 410) was a Syrian hermit of the region of Cyrrhus, north-east of Antioch, and one of the great fathers of the...

• Martha of Antioch

  Martha of Antioch (†551) is the mother of Symeon the Stylite of the Wonderful Mountain, and one of the very few women in the calendar honour...

• Martha of Diveyevo

  Martha — in the world Maria Semyonovna Milyukova — came to Seraphim of Sarov at the age of thirteen and never went home. The elder kept her...

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  Martin of Tours

  Martin of Tours (c. 316–397), whom the Orthodox calendars style "the Merciful," was the soldier who divided his cloak with a freezing beggar...

• Martin of Turov

  Martin was the cook of the bishops of Turov, on the Pripyat in the Turov–Pinsk country of what is now southern Belarus, and served four of t...

• Martin the Confessor of Rome

  Martin (†655) was Pope of Rome and the great Western confessor of the seventh century's struggle against the Monothelite heresy — the teachi...

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  Martinian of Caesarea

  Martinian (c. 397 – c. 422) was a hermit of Caesarea in Palestine, one of the best-loved of the ascetic saints for the story of the temptati...

• Martyred Fathers and Mothers of Atchara

  The Martyred Fathers and Mothers of Atchara are the Christians — men and women, and by the name of the commemoration chiefly the elderly — o...

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  Martyrius of Novgorod

  Martyrius, called Rushanin from his native Stara Russa, was Archbishop of Novgorod from 1193 to 1199 — six years in which he did more buildi...

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  Martyrius of Zelenets

  Martyrius of Zelenets (†1603) was a Russian monastic saint, the founder and first abbot of the Trinity monastery of Zelenets — the "Green Is...

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  Maruthas of Martyropolis

  Maruthas (died c. 422) was the Syrian bishop of Maiferkat in Mesopotamia — a learned man and, by repute, a physician — who gathered into his...

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  Mary (called Marinos)

  Mary, called Marinos (fifth-to-sixth century), is the ascetic woman who lived out her whole monastic life disguised as a man, and bore in si...

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  Mary Magdalene

  Mary of Magdala, the fishing town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, was delivered by Christ from seven demons and thereafter follo...

• Mary Syncletica

  Mary is a saint of the Byzantine calendar for August 11 known from a single sentence: a woman of senatorial rank — which is what the epithet...

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  Mary and Martha, Sisters of Lazarus

  Mary and Martha of Bethany are the sisters of Lazarus the Four-Days-Dead and, with him, the household in which the Lord was most at home. Th...

• Mary of Cleopas

  Mary "of Cleopas" is the woman whom St John names at the foot of the Cross — "his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas" (John 19:25) — a...

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  Mary of Egypt

  Mary of Egypt (c. 344 – c. 421) is the great penitent of the Church — a woman who for seventeen years lived in unbridled licentiousness at A...

• Matrona of Chios

  Matrona of Chios (fifteenth century) was a nun and abbess of the island of Chios, venerated throughout the island as its wonderworking mothe...

• Matrona of Constantinople

  Matrona of Constantinople (c. 420 – c. 492) was born at Perge in Pamphylia and married young to a man named Dometian, to whom she bore a dau...

• Matrona of Thessalonica

  Matrona was a Christian slave in the household of a Jewish woman of Thessalonica who, secretly keeping the faith of Christ, slipped away to...

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  Matthew the Evangelist

  Matthew the Evangelist — called Levi in two of the Gospels — was the tax-collector of Capernaum whom Christ summoned from the toll-booth wit...

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  Matthias the Apostle

  Matthias is the one member of the Twelve who was not called by the Lord in Galilee but chosen by lot in the ten days between the Ascension a...

• Maurice of Apamea and his Companions

  Maurice (died c. 305) was the commander of the garrison of Apamea on the Orontes in Syria, martyred under the emperor Galerius Maximian toge...

• Mausimas the Syrian

  Mausimas the Syrian (late fourth century) was a village priest and ascetic of the country near Cyrrhus in Syria, remembered in the History o...

• Mawgan of Bardsey

  Mawgan (in Welsh Meugan or Meugant) is a sixth-century Welsh saint whose cult is written broadly across Wales — church dedications at Llanrh...

• Maxim Sandovich

  Maxim Sandovich (1886–1914), priest of the Lemko highlands, is the protomartyr of the Carpatho-Russian return to Orthodoxy — a young Lemko w...

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  Maximian of Constantinople

  Maximian, a Roman by birth who had lived as an ascetic and spent his own inheritance burying the bodies of holy men, was raised from the pre...

• Maximus Kavsokalyvites

  Maximus the Hut-burner (c. 1270 – c. 1365) was one of the great hesychast fathers of Mount Athos in the fourteenth century. Born Manuel at L...

• Maximus of Asia

  Maximus was a layman and a merchant who suffered under Decius (249–251). His whole recorded biography turns on two facts: that he used his t...

• Maximus of Ephesus

  Maximus is a martyr of Ephesus commemorated on April 30, of whom the Byzantine books preserve only a single line — that he suffered for the...

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  Maximus of Moscow

  Maximus of Moscow (died 1434) was a fool-for-Christ of medieval Russia who bore the hardest form of ascetic self-emptying, walking about Mos...

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  Maximus the Confessor

  Maximus the Confessor (c. 580 – 662) is the supreme theologian of the seventh century and one of the greatest fathers of the Church. A high...

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  Maximus the Greek

  Maximus the Greek (c. 1470 – 1556) was an Athonite scholar-monk sent from Vatopedi to Muscovite Russia as a translator, who became one of th...

• Maximus, Quintilian and Dadas

  Maximus, Quintilian (Kyntilianos) and Dadas were three kinsmen of the region of Dorostolum on the lower Danube (in Roman Moesia, now Silistr...

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  Melania the Elder

  Melania the Elder (c. 350 – c. 410) was a Roman noblewoman, widowed at twenty-two, who took ship for Egypt in the reign of Valens, spent hal...

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  Melania the Younger

  Melania the Younger (c. 383 – 439) was a Roman noblewoman of one of the greatest senatorial fortunes of the late empire who, with her husban...

• Meletios Galesiotes

  Meletios the Confessor (c. 1209 – c. 1283), called "the Galesiote" from Mount Galesion near Ephesus where he was a monk, was one of the grea...

• Meletius Stratelates and Companions

  Meletius, called Stratelates ("the General"), was by the synaxarial tradition a Christian military commander in Galatia in Asia Minor in the...