Saints

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  Sabbas Stratelates

  Sabbas the Stratelates — "the General" — was a Goth by birth who rose by his courage to high command in the Roman army under the emperor Aur...

• Sabbas of Benephali

  Sabbas of Benephali is a monastic saint who survives in the calendars as a name and a place and nothing else. He stands in the Greek synaxar...

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  Sabbas of Krypetsk

  Sabbas of Krypetsk (†1495) was an Athonite monk who came north into the Russian lands, spent some years in the crowded monasteries of the Ps...

• Sabbas of Moscow

  Sabbas (†1410) was the disciple of Andronicus of Moscow and the second abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour on the Yauza — the Andronikov m...

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  Sabbas of Serbia

  Sabbas (Sava, c. 1174 – 1236), born Rastko Nemanjić, youngest son of the Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja, is the father of the Serbian C...

• Sabbas of Stagira

  Sabbas was a monk of the Athonite Monastery of Konstamonitou, born at Stagira in Chalkidiki in the later eighteenth century, who was killed...

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  Sabbas of Storozhevsk

  Sabbas of Storozhevsk (Savva of Zvenigorod, †1406) was one of the first and closest disciples of Sergius of Radonezh, tonsured by him in his...

• Sabbas the Goth

  Sabbas was a Gothic Christian, a reader and singer of the church among his people north of the Danube, who was drowned in the river Mousaios...

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  Sabbas the Sanctified

  Sabbas the Sanctified (439–532) was the great organiser of monasticism in the Judaean desert and one of the most influential ascetics in the...

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  Sabbatius of Solovki

  Sabbatius of Solovki (†1435) was the first hermit of the Solovki islands in the White Sea and, with Herman and Zosimas, is venerated as a fo...

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  Sabinus of Catania

  Sabinus (†c. 760) was a bishop of Catania in Sicily who laid down his see for the wilderness: consecrated against his inclination, he soon w...

• Sabinus of Cyprus

  Sabinus was the disciple, biographer and successor of Epiphanius of Cyprus. Tonsured by Epiphanius and his companion in the ascetic life for...

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  Sabinus of Egypt

  Sabinus (†c. 287) was a martyr of Hermopolis in Egypt — a leading citizen, and by some accounts the governor of the city, who in the persecu...

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  Sadoth of Persia

  Sadoth (Syriac Shahdost, "friend of the king"; Slavic Sadoc) was the second bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the royal city of Persia, succeedi...

• Salaman the Silent

  Salaman the Silent (died c. 400) was a hermit of the Euphrates country in Syria, one of the ascetics whose lives Theodoret of Cyrrhus record...

• Salome the Georgian

  Salome was a Georgian nun of the women's community attached to the Monastery of the Cross at Jerusalem in the thirteenth century, who was se...

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  Salome the Myrrhbearer

  Salome is the wife of Zebedee and the mother of the apostles James and John, and one of the myrrhbearing women who followed Christ from Gali...

• Salon the Roman

  Salon — the name appears also as Salonas — is known from one line of the Synaxarion of Constantinople, kept in the Greek Menaion for May 23:...

• Martyrs of Samosata

  The seven Martyrs of Samosata — Romanus, James, Philotheus, Hyperechius, Abibus, Julian and Paregorius — suffered together about the year 29...

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  Sampson the Hospitable

  Sampson the Hospitable was a Roman-born physician who gave away a great inheritance, settled at Constantinople, and turned his own house int...

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  Samuel the Prophet

  Samuel (eleventh century BC) stands at the hinge of the Old Testament: the last of the Judges and the first of the great line of prophets af...

• Sarah of Sketis

  Sarah is one of the three women — with Theodora and Synkletike — whose sayings were gathered into the alphabetical collection of the Sayings...

• Sarbelus of Edessa

  Sarbelus (Syriac Sharbil) was the chief pagan priest of Edessa in Mesopotamia under the emperor Trajan (98–117), converted to Christ with hi...

• Sarmatas the Ascetic

  Sarmatas is one of the desert fathers of Egypt, known not from a Life but from the sayings-collections — the Apophthegmata (the "Paradise of...

• Sarmean of Kartli

  Sarmean was Catholicos of Kartli — primate of the Church of Georgia — from about 767 to 774, in the hardest years of the Arab domination, wh...

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  Sava II of Serbia

  Sava the Second (c. 1201 – 1271), born Predislav Nemanjić, was the third Archbishop of Serbia, a prince of the Nemanjić house who followed h...

• Sava III of Serbia

  Sava the Third was Archbishop of Serbia from 1309 to 1316, the seventh successor of Sava the First on the throne of the autocephalous Serbia...

• Scholastica

  Scholastica (c. 480 – c. 543) was the sister — by an early tradition the twin — of Benedict of Nursia, the father of Western monasticism, an...

• Sebastian of Poshekhonye

  Sebastian of Poshekhonye (†c. 1500) was a Russian monastic saint, the founder and first abbot of a hermitage in the forested Poshekhonye cou...

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  Sebastian of Rome

  Sebastian (d. c. 288) was, by the tradition received in both East and West, an officer of the Roman army under Diocletian — captain of the i...

• Sebastiana of Heraclea

  Sebastiana is venerated as a disciple of the Apostle Paul who won the martyr's crown in old age under the emperor Domitian (81–96). Tried fi...

• Seleucus

  Seleucus is one of the martyrs whose whole surviving record is a single line of the Synaxarion of Constantinople, preserved in the Greek Men...

• Seraphim of Domvou

  Seraphim, in the world Sotiris, was born in 1527 in a village of Boeotia and gave his whole life to the monasteries of central Greece under...

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  Seraphim of Sarov

  Seraphim of Sarov (1754–1833), born Prochorus Moshnin of Kursk, is among the most beloved saints of the modern Orthodox world — a hieromonk...

• Seraphima of Antioch

  Seraphima — Serapia in the Latin books, Seraphima in the Slavonic — was a Christian virgin of Antioch on the Orontes who came to Rome in the...

• Serapion of David Gareji

  Serapion was abbot of the monastery of St John the Baptist in the David Gareji wilderness of Kakheti, in the eighteenth century — the last a...

• Serapion of Kozheozero

  Serapion was a Tatar prince of Kazan, born Turtas Gravirovich, who was taken to Moscow after the campaigns of the 1550s, was baptised there...

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  Serapion of Novgorod

  Serapion (c. 1450 – 1516) was a Russian monastic saint and hierarch — hegumen of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and afterwards Archbishop of Novg...

• Serapion of Thmuis

  Serapion (c. 300 – after 362) was bishop of Thmuis in the Egyptian Delta, a monk of the Nitrian desert before his consecration, the intimate...

• Serapion the Martyr

  Serapion is a martyr of the persecution under the emperor Septimius Severus, put to death about the year 205 by burning. The synaxarion noti...

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  Serapion the Sindonite

  Serapion the Sindonite is the Egyptian ascetic who owned nothing at all but a single coarse linen cloth — the sindōn that gave him his name...

• Synaxis of the Serbian Hierarchs

  On August 30 the Serbian Church, and with it the Russian Church and the OCA, keeps a single office for the whole line of archbishops and pat...

• Sergius Strelnikov

  Sergius Strelnikov was a village priest of the Vyatka country who served the church of St John the Forerunner at Orshanka, in what is now th...

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  Sergius and Bacchus

  Sergius and Bacchus (†c. 303–305) were Roman officers of high rank and favourites of the emperor, exposed as Christians when they refused to...

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  Sergius and Herman of Valaam

  Sergius and Herman are venerated as the founders of the Monastery of the Transfiguration on Valaam, the great island house in the northern r...

• Sergius and Stephen

  Sergius and Stephen are two monastic fathers commemorated together in the Greek synaxaria on August 12, of whom the record preserves two nam...

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  Sergius of Radonezh

  Sergius of Radonezh (1314–1392) is the greatest monastic saint of Russia and one of the most beloved figures of all Orthodoxy. Born Bartholo...

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  Sergius of Shukhtom

  Sergius of Shukhtom (c. 1530 – 19 May 1609) was a schema-monk of the Vologda north whose long life divided into two halves: some fifty years...

• Sergius the Confessor

  Sergius was a patrician of Constantinople, of one of the great families of the city, and the father of Photius the Great; he was closely aki...

• Sergius the Magistros

  Sergius, called the Magistros from the high Byzantine dignity he held, was a nobleman of Niketia in Paphlagonia, on the Black Sea coast near...