Saints

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  Nahum the Prophet

  Nahum the Elkoshite, seventh of the Twelve Minor Prophets, prophesied in Judah in the seventh century before Christ, and his short book is a...

• Narcissus of Jerusalem

  Narcissus was bishop of Jerusalem at the turn of the second and third centuries — the thirtieth or thirty-first from James the Brother of th...

• Natalius the Martyr

  Natalius is a martyr of the Greek synaxarion of May 30 of whom nothing at all is transmitted except his name and the manner of his death: he...

• Nathanael the Apostle

  Nathanael — "Nathanael of Cana in Galilee," the man of whom Christ said "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile" — is known from th...

• Naucratius

  Naucratius was the second son of Basil the Elder and Emmelia, and so the brother of Basil the Great, Macrina the Younger, Gregory of Nyssa a...

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  Naum of Ohrid

  Naum of Ohrid (c. 830–910) was one of the seven Apostles of the Slavs — the Sedmochislenitsi — a direct disciple and co-worker of Cyril and...

• Nazarius of Kutaisi and Companions

  Nazarius (Lezhava), Metropolitan of Kutaisi-Gaenati, was shot with four of his clergy and a layman in the Sapichkhia forest outside Kutaisi...

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  Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius and Celsius

  Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius and Celsius are the four martyrs of Milan whom the Byzantine calendar commemorates together on October 14: by...

• Neaniskos of Alexandria

  Neaniskos is a martyr of Alexandria in the persecution of Diocletian, remembered in the Greek synaxaria under the epithet ὁ σοφώτατος, "the...

• Nearchus

  Nearchus is a martyr of the third century whom the Byzantine synaxarion commemorates on April 22 in a single line — "the holy martyr Nearchu...

• Nectan of Hartland

  A Welsh hermit of the sixth century, reckoned the eldest of the many children of Brychan of Brycheiniog, who crossed the Bristol Channel wit...

• Nectarius and Theophanes of Meteora

  Theophanes and Nectarius, brothers of the noble Epirot family of the Apsarades of Ioannina, are the founders of the Monastery of Varlaam at...

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  Nectarius of Aegina

  Nectarius of Aegina (1846–1920), born Anastasios Kephalas in Silivri (Selybria) in Thrace, is among the most beloved saints of the modern Or...

• Nectarius of Vryoulla

  Nektarios was a young Greek of Vryoulla (Vourla) in the country of Ephesus who, at seventeen, denied Christ under the pressure of a plague a...

• Neophytos the Recluse

  Neophytos the Recluse (1134–1219) — ho Enkleistos, "the Enclosed" — is among the greatest saints of Cyprus, called for his eloquence the "Ch...

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  Neophytus of Nicaea

  Neophytus of Nicaea (†c. 303–305) was a boy-martyr of Bithynia whom the tradition remembers for the gift of wonderworking bestowed on him wh...

• Neophytus, Gaius and Gaianus

  Neophytus, Gaius and Gaianus are three martyrs of whom the Greek synaxarion for May 5 preserves a single line: that they were perfected by t...

• Neophytus, Zeno and Companions

  Six martyrs — Neophytus, Zeno, Gaius, Mark, Macarius and Gaianus — stand in the Greek synaxarion for August 11 under a single line: they wer...

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  Nestor of Magydos

  Nestor (†c. 250) was bishop of Magydos, a city of Pamphylia on the southern coast of Asia Minor, and a hieromartyr of the persecution under...

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  Nestor of Thessalonica

  Nestor (†c. 306) was a young Christian of Thessalonica who, blessed and emboldened in his prison cell by the great-martyr Demetrius, went up...

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  Nestor the Chronicler

  Nestor the Chronicler (c. 1050 – c. 1114) was a monk and hierodeacon of the Kiev Caves monastery, the first great historian of the Christian...

• Nicander of Egypt

  Nicander (†c. 302) was a Christian of Egypt — remembered in the tradition as a physician — who suffered martyrdom in the Great Persecution u...

• Nicander of Myra and Hermas

  Nicander, bishop of Myra in Lycia, and Hermas the presbyter were disciples of the Apostle Titus of the Seventy, who ordained them to the pri...

• Nicanor of Mount Callistratus

  Nicanor (baptised Nicholas) was born at Thessalonica in 1491 to wealthy and devout parents, John and Maria, of the parish of Saint Menas; ha...

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  Nicanor the Deacon

  Nicanor was one of the seven deacons chosen by the Apostles in the first days of the Church at Jerusalem — the "seven men of good repute, fu...

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  Nicephorus of Antioch

  Nicephorus of Antioch (†c. 257) was a layman of Syrian Antioch whose martyrdom the Church keeps as its great parable of forgiveness. He and...

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  Nicephorus of Chios

  Nicephorus of Chios (c. 1750–1821) was a monk, teacher, hymnographer and — the title by which the tradition knows him — a trainer of martyrs...

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  Nicephorus of Constantinople

  Nicephorus the Confessor (c. 758 – 828) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 806 to 815 and, after Tarasius, the second of the great iconodu...

• Nicephorus of Ephapsis

  Nicephorus is one of the genuinely unknown saints of the fixed calendar. The whole of his transmitted memory is a single short notice in a A...

• Nicephorus of Medikion

  Nicephorus (†813) was the ascetic who founded the monastery of Medikion on the Bithynian shore of the Sea of Marmara, near the ancient Cius...

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  Nicetas of Chalcedon

  Nicetas, bishop of Chalcedon on the Asian shore opposite Constantinople, was one of the hierarchs who lost their sees for the holy icons in...

• Nicetas of Medikion

  Nicetas (c. 760–824) was abbot of the great monastery of Medikion in Bithynia and one of the foremost confessors of the second period of Byz...

• Nicetas of Nisyros

  Nicetas was a boy of Mandraki, on the volcanic island of Nisyros in the Dodecanese, whose father — a notable of the town — escaped execution...

• Nicetas of Remesiana

  Nicetas, bishop of Remesiana in Dacia Mediterranea — the modern Bela Palanka in south-eastern Serbia, on the road from Naissus to Serdica —...

• Nicetas of Thebes

  Nicetas was a monk of Thebes in Boeotia, the "seven-gated" city of the old Greek epic, who was tonsured at the age of sixteen and gathered a...

• Nicetas the Confessor of Apollonias

  Nicetas was archbishop of Apollonias in Bithynia in the early ninth century, and one of the confessors of the holy icons in the second icono...

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  Nicetas the Goth

  Nicetas the Goth (†372) was a Christian of the Gothic lands on the lower Danube, converted and formed in the young Gothic church of the four...

• Nicetas the Patrician

  Nicetas the Patrician (c. 763–c. 838), called in the Greek synaxarion "Nicetas the Patrician, the Confessor" and by the OCA "Nikita the Conf...

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  Nicetas the Stylite of Pereyaslavl

  Nicetas of Pereyaslavl (†1186) was a tax-farmer of the newly founded Russian city of Pereyaslavl-Zalessky who grew rich by extortion, was co...

• Nicetas, John and Joseph of Nea Moni

  Nicetas, John and Joseph were three ascetics living on the mountain of Chios in the first half of the eleventh century who found an icon of...

• Nicholas Cabasilas

  Nicholas Cabasilas (c. 1320–c. 1392) of Thessalonica was a layman, a statesman's counsellor and a man of letters who became one of the great...

• Nicholas Chrysoberges

  Nicholas Chrysoberges was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in the last decades of the tenth century, under the emperor Basil II. His p...

• Nicholas Kochanov

  Nicholas Kochanov (†1392) was a fool for Christ's sake at Novgorod the Great, born of a rich and well-known family of the city, who fled the...

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  Nicholas Mystikos

  Nicholas the Mystikos (852 – 15 May 925) was twice Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and is honoured as a saint for the one act that c...

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  Nicholas of Japan

  Nicholas of Japan (Ivan Dmitrievich Kasatkin, 1836–1912) was the founder and first hierarch of the Orthodox Church in Japan, honoured as Equ...

• Nicholas of Metsovo

  Nicholas — surnamed Basdanis — was a poor young man of Metsovo in Epirus who, working for a Muslim baker in Trikkala in Thessaly, was worn d...

• Nicholas of Pskov

  Nicholas Salos (†1576), remembered by the people of his city as Mikula the Holy, was the fool-for-Christ of Pskov who for more than three de...

• Nicholas of Sofia

  Nicholas the New of Sofia (1510 – 17 May 1555) was a shoemaker of Ottoman Sofia, born at Ioannina in Epirus of Christian parents, whose mart...

• Nicholas the Grocer

  Nicholas "the Grocer" (Pantopoles), a young Greek of Karpenisi in central Greece, was martyred at Constantinople in 1672 at about fifteen ye...

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  Nicholas the Studite

  Nicholas the Studite (c. 793 – 868) was a monk, confessor, and twice abbot of the great Studion monastery at Constantinople in the age of th...