Saints

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  Seven Maccabee Martyrs

  The seven Maccabee brothers, their mother Solomonia and their aged teacher Eleazar are the Church's Old Testament martyrs: Jews of Judaea wh...

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  Seven Youths of Ephesus

  The Seven Youths of Ephesus — Maximilian, Iamblichus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodianus (also called Constantine), and Antoninus —...

• Seventeen Monastic Martyrs of India

  The Seventeen Monastic Martyrs of India are a company of monks commemorated on November 27, known from the celebrated story of Barlaam and J...

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  Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles

  On January 4 the Church keeps the Synaxis — the common assembly — of the Seventy Apostles, that second and wider company whom the Lord "appo...

• Seventy Martyrs of Scythopolis

  A company of seventy martyrs who suffered at Scythopolis in Palestine — the Greek city on the site of biblical Beth-shean, in the Jordan val...

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  Severian of Sebaste

  Severian (†320) was a nobleman of Sebaste in Armenia who suffered martyrdom under the emperor Licinius, in the same persecution and the same...

• Severus and Artemidorus

  Severus and Artemidorus are martyrs commemorated together on September 8, each known from a single line of the Greek synaxarion: Severus was...

• Severus, Memnon and the Thirty-Seven Martyrs

  A company of thirty-nine martyrs of Thrace, put to death in the persecution of Diocletian about the year 304 and commemorated together on Au...

• Sexburga of Ely

  Sexburga was a daughter of Anna, King of the East Angles, one of the most remarkable saint-bearing families of the English Church, and becam...

• Shalva of Akhaltsikhe

  A Georgian commander of the generation that won the great victories of Queen Tamar and lived to see them undone. Shalva of Akhaltsikhe, of t...

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  Shio of Mgvime

  Shio was one of the Thirteen Syrian Fathers who came into Georgia in the sixth century from the ascetic tradition of Antioch under the leade...

• Shio the New and the Martyrs of Gareji

  At the end of the seventeenth century a band of Dagestani raiders fell upon the cave-monastery of David-Gareji in the semi-desert of Kakheti...

• Shushanik of Georgia

  Shushanik — the Slavic books call her Susanna — was an Armenian noblewoman, daughter of the general Vardan Mamikonian who fell at Avarayr, a...

• Sigebert of East Anglia

  Sigebert (Sigeberht, †630s×640s) was king of the East Angles, converted and educated in Gaul during an exile, under whom East Anglia was dec...

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  Silas, Silvanus, Crescens and Epaenetus

  On July 30 the Church keeps together four apostles of the Seventy whose names stand in the New Testament itself: Silas, the prophet and "chi...

• Silin

  Silin is the saint whom the Welsh calendars commemorate on September 1 and to whom a notable group of Welsh churches is dedicated — the grea...

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  Silouan the Athonite

  Silouan the Athonite (1866–1938) is the great monastic saint of the twentieth century: a barely lettered Russian peasant from Tambov provinc...

• Silvan of Gaza

  Silvan of Gaza (†311) is one of the last martyrs of the great persecution in Palestine, and one of the few saints of his rank whose death is...

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  Silvanus of Emesa

  Silvanus, Bishop of Emesa in Phoenicia Libanensis (modern Homs, in Syria), was an aged hierarch given to the wild beasts in the amphitheatre...

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  Silvanus of the Kiev Caves

  Silvanus was a schemamonk of the Far Caves of the Monastery of the Caves at Kiev, who laboured there in the thirteenth and fourteenth centur...

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  Silvester of Rome

  Silvester of Rome (†335) was bishop of Rome from 314 to 335, through the whole reign of Constantine the Great after the peace of the Church...

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  Simeon of Jerusalem

  Simeon, son of Clopas, was the second bishop of Jerusalem and a kinsman of the Lord according to the flesh — by the witness of Hegesippus a...

• Simeon of Persia and Companions

  Simeon bar Sabbae (Shemʿon), Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the capital of the Persian empire, was the head of the Church of Persia and the g...

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  Simeon of Verkhoturye

  Simeon of Verkhoturye (c. 1607–1642) is the most beloved saint of the Russian Urals and Siberia — a nobleman who hid his birth to live as a...

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  Simeon the Myrrh-gusher of Serbia

  Simeon the Myrrh-gusher (c. 1113 – 1199), born Stefan Nemanja, was the Grand Župan (grand prince) who gathered the scattered Serbian lands i...

• Simeon, Isaac and Bachtisius of Persia

  Simeon, Isaac and Bachtisius were Christians of the Persian empire who died for refusing to renounce Christ and to conform to the state reli...

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  Simon of Vladimir

  Simon (†1226) was a monk of the Kiev Caves who became abbot of the Nativity monastery at Vladimir and, in 1214, the first bishop of the newl...

• Simon the Myrrh-gusher

  Simon the Myrrh-gusher (†c. 1287) was a hermit of Mount Athos and the founder of the monastery of Simonopetra — "Simon's Rock" — one of the...

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  Simon the Zealot

  Simon the Zealot is the eleventh name in every apostolic list of the New Testament and one of the Twelve of whom the Gospels record nothing...

• Sisinius of Cyzicus

  Sisinius of Cyzicus was a confessor and bishop of the early fourth century. During the persecution of Diocletian he was condemned to be drag...

• Sisinius, Cyriacus and the Martyrs of Rome

  On June 7 the Byzantine calendars commemorate, in one long notice, the company of Roman martyrs formed around the relief of the Christian pr...

• Sisoes of the Far Caves

  Sisoes, called the Schemamonk, was a monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra of the thirteenth century whose incorrupt relics rest in the Far (Theodosi...

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  Sisoes the Great

  Sisoes the Great (†429) is among the most beloved of the Egyptian desert fathers, a monk of Scetis who after the repose of Anthony the Great...

• Six Martyrs of Bizye

  Six martyrs, whose names have not come down, are commemorated on August 10 in the Greek Menaion under the heading "the six martyrs at Bizye"...

• The Six Martyrs of Melitene

  Six martyrs, associated in the Greek synaxarion with Melitene in Armenia Minor, who were drowned for Christ. As with several of the minor co...

• The Six Thousand Martyrs of David-Gareji

  The largest single martyrdom in the history of the Georgian Church, and the one commemoration of the Georgian calendar that is fixed to Brig...

• The Sixteen Martyrs of Thebes

  A company of sixteen martyrs called Thebans, beheaded for Christ, whose number and manner of death is the whole of what the synaxarion trans...

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  Sixtus II of Rome

  Sixtus — Xystus in the Greek and in the older Latin — was bishop of Rome for less than a year, from August 257 to August 258, and is one of...

• Socrates and Stephen

  Socrates and Stephen are early martyrs of Britain known from the martyrologies alone. Their names stand against September 17 in the Martyrol...

• Solochon, Pamphamer and Pamphalon

  Solochon, Pamphamer and Pamphalon were Egyptian soldiers of a Roman legion moved to Chalcedon on the Asian shore opposite Byzantium, put to...

• Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki

  The Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki gathers on one day all the saints of the Solovetsky Monastery on the White Sea — the founders Sabbatius...

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  Sophia and Irene of Egypt

  Sophia and Irene were two women martyred for Christ in Egypt in the third century — the Russian tradition places their death under the emper...

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  Sophia and her Daughters Faith, Hope and Love

  Sophia ("Wisdom") was a Christian widow of Italy whose three young daughters — Faith, Hope and Love (Pistis, Elpis and Agape; in Slavic use...

• Sophia of Ainos

  Sophia of Ainos in Thrace is the Church's chief example of the ascetic life lived out inside a household and a marriage. Born to wealthy and...

• Sophia the Physician

  Sophia, called the Physician (ἡ ἰατρός), is a martyr of the Byzantine synaxaria commemorated on May 22, known only from her bare synaxarion...

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  Sophronius of Cyprus

  Sophronius (6th century, by the usual reckoning) was a bishop of the Church of Cyprus, honoured by the tradition as an ascetic hierarch — le...

• Sophronius of Irkutsk

  Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk and Nerchinsk — in the liturgical style "of Irkutsk and all Siberia" — was one of the great missionary hierarc...

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  Sophronius of Jerusalem

  Sophronius the Sophist (c. 560 – 638) was Patriarch of Jerusalem in the last years before the Arab conquest, and one of the towering figures...

• Sophronius of Saint Anne's Skete

  Sophronius was an Athonite of the eighteenth century whose whole recorded biography is two sentences and one extraordinary act: on the night...

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  Sophronius of Vratsa

  Sophronius of Vratsa (1739–1813), born Stoyko Vladislavov, was a bishop of the Church of Bulgaria and one of the fathers of the Bulgarian Na...