Saints

• Proculus, Ephebus, Apollonius and Abundius

  Three students from Athens — Proculus, Ephebus and Apollonius — had come to Rome to read rhetoric under the Greek master Craton, and were in...

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  Prokopius of Decapolis

  Prokopius the Confessor of Decapolis (†c. 750) was a monk of the region of the Decapolis, east of the Sea of Galilee, who together with his...

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  Proterius of Alexandria

  Proterius (†457) was Patriarch of Alexandria from 451 to his death, and a hieromartyr of the Church. A presbyter of Alexandria under the Mon...

• Psoy of Egypt

  Psoy — in Greek Ψόης, Psoes, a Coptic name borne by many monks of the Egyptian desert — is commemorated by the Byzantine books on August 9 a...

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  Publia of Antioch

  Publia (Poplia) was an aged deaconess of fourth-century Antioch, a widow who raised her son John to the priesthood and gathered in her house...

• Publius of Athens

  Publius (second century) was Bishop of Athens and a hieromartyr — the shepherd of the Athenian church who was put to death for the confessio...

• Publius of Zeugma

  Publius of Zeugma (early fourth century – c. 380) was a Syrian ascetic and monastic founder, one of the desert fathers of the region of the...

• Pudens of the Seventy

  Pudens was a Christian of Rome, named by the Apostle Paul in the Second Letter to Timothy, and is numbered by the Church among the Seventy A...

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  Pulcheria the Empress

  Pulcheria (399–453) was the empress who, more than any other lay person, steered the Church of the fifth century through its two greatest st...