Saints

Rabulas (c. 450 – c. 530) was a Syrian ascetic of Samosata on the Euphrates who, after taking the monastic habit young and long labouring as...

The Synaxis of the Saints of Radonezh is the common commemoration of the whole company of saints connected with the Trinity–Sergius Lavra an...

Raphael Hawaweeny (1860–1915) was the first Orthodox bishop consecrated on North American soil and the shepherd of the scattered Arab Orthod...

The strangest entry in the modern Greek calendar, and one of the few saints in this collection whose whole biography reached the Church afte...

Razhden was a Persian nobleman who came to Kartli (eastern Georgia) in the retinue of the Persian princess Balenduxt when she was given in m...

Reginos (late 3rd century – 362) was Bishop of Skopelos, the island of the Northern Sporades in the Aegean, and a hieromartyr of the reign o...

Rhais (Irais, Iraida; in Russian usage Raisa) was a virgin of Alexandria who suffered martyrdom in Egypt around the year 308, in the last gr...

Rhuddlad (or Rhyddlad; by convention 7th century) is the patroness of Llanrhyddlad — "the church of Rhuddlad" — at the foot of Moel Rhyddlad...

Ripsimia (Hripsime), the eldress Gaiana (Gayane), and the company of consecrated virgins with them (†c. 300) fled the emperor Diocletian — w...

Roman (†1392) was a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh and the first abbot of the monastery of the Annunciation on the river Kirzhach, in the V...

Roman Olegovich, prince of Ryazan (c. 1237 – 19 July 1270), was the grandson of princes who died fighting Batu, and the last of his house to...

Romanos of Cilicia was a hermit of the fifth century who, though a native of Rhoson in Cilicia, passed his ascetic life in a cave near Antio...

Romanos (died 1694) was a new venerable-martyr of the Ottoman period, born at Karpenisi in the mountains of central Greece, who took up the...

Romanus (†303) was a deacon of the church of Caesarea in Palestine who, during the Great Persecution, was staying at Antioch and there boldl...

Romanus the Melodist (c. 490–c. 556) is the greatest of Orthodox hymnographers: a Syrian from Emesa who served as deacon in Beirut and then...

Romanus was a soldier of the guard set over the imprisoned archdeacon Laurence at Rome in August 258. Watching the tortures, he saw — so the...

A company of martyrs of Nicomedia in Bithynia — Romanus, Teletius (also transmitted as Meletius) and Christina, together with what the Greek...

Rostislav (Rastislav, †c. 870) was Prince of Great Moravia from 846, the ruler whose embassy to Constantinople in 862 brought Cyril and Meth...

Rostislav Mstislavich (c. 1110 – 1167), called Michael in holy baptism, was Prince of Smolensk and thrice Grand Prince of Kiev, a grandson o...

In the cellar of a requisitioned merchant's house at Yekaterinburg, on the night of 16–17 July 1918 — the 4th of July by the church reckonin...

Rufus and Rufianus were brothers (the Greek synaxarion calls them αὐτάδελφοι, "brothers of one blood") who were martyred for Christ by behea...