Saints

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  Meletius of Antioch

  Meletius (early 4th century – 381) was Archbishop of Antioch and one of the most beloved and most tried of the Church's hierarchs. Raised to...

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  Melitina of Marcianopolis

  Melitina was a martyr of Marcianopolis in Lower Moesia (near modern Devnya, Bulgaria) who suffered in the reign of Antoninus Pius (138–161)...

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  Memnon of Ephesus

  Memnon (†c. 440) was archbishop (metropolitan) of Ephesus at the time of the Third Ecumenical Council, which met in his city in 431 to conde...

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  Memnon the Wonderworker

  Memnon was an ascetic of the Egyptian desert who from his youth gave himself to the monastic life, was set over one of the Egyptian monaster...

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  Menas of Constantinople

  Menas, an Alexandrian by birth, was priest and warden of the great hospital of St Sampson at Constantinople — the poorhouse and hospice betw...

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  Menas of Egypt

  Menas of Egypt (c. 285 – c. 309) was an Egyptian soldier of the Roman army who, at the height of the Diocletianic persecution, cast down his...

• Menas of Polotsk

  Menas (†1116) was a monk of the Kiev Caves monastery who on 13 December 1105 was consecrated Bishop of Polotsk, and is the first bishop of t...

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  Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus

  Menas Kallikelados ("the fair-spoken"), Hermogenes and Eugraphus were three martyrs of the early fourth century, commemorated together on De...

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  Menodora, Metrodora and Nymphodora

  Menodora, Metrodora and Nymphodora (†c. 305–311) were three sisters of Bithynia in Asia Minor, consecrated virgins who withdrew to a solitar...

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  Mercurius of Caesarea

  Mercurius of Caesarea (†c. 250) is the great-martyr and soldier-saint of the persecutions of Decius and Valerian, a young officer of Scythia...

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  Mercurius of Smolensk

  Mercurius of Smolensk (†c. 1238) is the soldier-martyr and patron of the city of Smolensk, a warrior of Slavic — the tradition says Moravian...

• Mercurius of the Kiev Near Caves

  Mercurius was a monk of the Kiev Caves who was taken from the cave to the episcopal throne of Smolensk, and who died in his city under the T...

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  Mertius of Mauretania

  Mertius (died c. 305) was a soldier of the Roman army in Mauretania, in Roman Africa, martyred in the persecution of Diocletian. Commanded t...

• Methodia of Kimolos

  Methodia of Kimolos (1865–1908) is the ascetic saint of the small Cycladic island of Kimolos. Born Irene, a daughter of Jacob Sardis and his...

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  Methodius of Constantinople

  Methodius the Confessor, a Sicilian by birth and a monk of Chios, was the hierarch under whom the iconoclast controversy ended. Legate of th...

• Methodius of Lampe

  Methodius, surnamed Silygardos, was a Cretan of the village of Vyzari in the province of Amari, who became abbot of the monastery of the Aso...

• Methodius of Moravia

  Methodius (c. 815–885) was, with his younger brother Cyril the Philosopher, the apostle of the Slavs — the elder of the two "Thessalonian br...

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  Methodius of Patara

  Methodius (†c. 311–312) is the bishop, theologian and martyr whom the Church honours as the first great critic of Origen. Called in the Gree...

• Methodius of Peshnosha

  Methodius was a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh and the founder of the Nicholas-Peshnosha monastery on the river Yakhroma, north of Moscow n...

• Metrophanes Chang and the Chinese Martyrs

  In June 1900, during the Boxer Rising, the Orthodox community of Peking — a small Chinese church two centuries old, descended from the Russi...

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  Metrophanes of Constantinople

  Metrophanes was bishop of Byzantium in the years when the little see on the Bosporus became the see of the New Rome, and is honoured by the...

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  Metrophanes of Voronezh

  Metrophanes of Voronezh (1623–1703), in the world Michael and in the schema Macarius, was the first bishop of the newly erected see of Voron...

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  Micah of Moresheth

  Micah of Moresheth is the sixth of the Twelve Minor Prophets, a Judean countryman from the Shephelah who prophesied at Jerusalem in the last...

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  Micah of Radonezh

  Micah was among the first disciples of Sergius of Radonezh, and the one who shared his cell. The tradition remembers him for nothing but mee...

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  Micah, Son of Imlah

  Micah the son of Imlah (ninth century BC) — called Micaiah in the Hebrew of the narrative — is the prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel...

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  Michael Maleinos

  Michael Maleinos (c. 894 – 12 July 961) was a Byzantine aristocrat of the great Cappadocian house of the Maleinoi who left the court in his...

• Michael Pakhnanas

  Michael Pakhnanas — the surname is also written Baknanas (Μπακνανάς) — was an illiterate young gardener of Athens, born about 1750 in the qu...

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  Michael and Theodore of Chernigov

  Michael Vsevolodovich, Prince of Chernigov and for a time Grand Prince of Kiev, and Theodore, his boyar and faithful counsellor, were put to...

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  Michael of Kiev

  Michael (†992) is venerated as the first Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia: the hierarch who, by church tradition, came to Kiev with Princ...

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  Michael of Klopsk

  Michael of Klopsk (late 14th century – c. 1453) was a fool-for-Christ of Novgorod, one of the most beloved of the Russian holy fools. Of nob...

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  Michael of Synnada

  Michael, bishop of Synnada in Phrygia, was one of the most useful men in the Byzantine empire of his generation and one of the boldest: a mo...

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  Michael the Black-Robed

  Michael — called in Slavonic chernorizets, "the black-robed," the plain old word for a monk, and in Greek ho Sabbaïtēs, the Sabbaite — was a...

• Michael the Soldier of Bulgaria

  Michael the Soldier (†c. 866) was one of the first Bulgarians to embrace Christianity, a native of Potuka who lived in the reign of the Byza...

• Michael the Synkellos

  Michael the Synkellos (c. 761–846) was a monk of the Lavra of St Sabbas and synkellos of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem who became one of the...

• Midan of Anglesey

  Midan — Nidan in the Welsh record, Idan in one manuscript — is a priest of Anglesey, patron of the church of Llanidan on the Menai shore of...

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  Milica of Serbia

  Milica (c. 1335 – 11 November 1405) was the wife of the great-martyr Lazar of Serbia, the mother of the despot Stefan Lazarević, and — for t...

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  Milos of Persia

  Milos (†c. 341) was a Persian nobleman and soldier who became bishop of Susa (the Shushan of the Prophet Daniel), a hierarch graced with the...

• Mirdat of Kartli

  Mirdat, king of Kartli (Iberia, eastern Georgia) about 408–410, is honoured by the Georgian Church as the first of its martyred kings. Reare...

• Mirin of Paisley

  Mirin (Meadhrán, Merinus — the Merryn of this calendar) was an Irish monk of the sixth and early seventh centuries, given as a child to Comg...

• Mnemonios of Amathus

  Mnemonios was bishop of Amathus in Cyprus in the second half of the fourth century, the predecessor of Tychon of Amathus, whom he ordained d...

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  Mocius of Amphipolis

  Mocius was a presbyter of Amphipolis in Macedonia who, in the persecution under Diocletian, broke into the drunken festival of Dionysus in h...

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  Modestus of Jerusalem

  Modestus (c. 537–634) was the archbishop who rebuilt the holy places of Jerusalem after the catastrophe of the Persian sack. Born in Cappado...

• Moling of Ferns

  An Irish monk of the seventh century — reckoned among the four prophets of Ireland — who founded the monastery of Tech Moling on the river B...

• Moluag of Lismore

  Moluag was an Irish monk of the Dál nAraidi of Ulster, trained at Bangor under Comgall, who crossed to Alba about 562 and planted his monast...

• Monenna of Killeavy

  Monenna — called also Darerca, and locally Blinne — was one of the earliest and greatest of the holy women of Ireland, a contemporary of Pat...

• Monessa

  Monessa (traditionally †456) is a maiden of the age of Patrick who, in the earliest account, sought the Maker of the sun before she had ever...

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  Monica

  Monica (c. 331–387) was a Christian woman of Tagaste in Roman North Africa, the wife of a pagan husband whom her patience won to the faith,...

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  Moses of Novgorod

  Moses of Novgorod (died 1362) was Archbishop of Novgorod the Great in the fourteenth century, a builder of churches and monasteries and a sh...

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  Moses of Optina

  Moses (Putilov) — Timothy in the world, born at Borisoglebsk in 1782 — was the superior who made Optina what it became. Formed at Sarov, whe...

• Moses the Anchorite

  Moses the Anchorite is one of the ascetics of the Greek synaxarion whose whole surviving memory is a single line: that he struggled in a man...