Saints

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  Tabitha

  Tabitha — called in Greek Dorcas, both names meaning "gazelle" — was a woman disciple of the earliest Church at Joppa on the coast of Judea,...

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  Taisia of Egypt

  Taisia of Egypt — Thaïs, in the Greek and Latin of her Life — was a celebrated courtesan of fourth-century Egypt, famed for a beauty that, t...

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  Tamara of Georgia

  Tamara (c. 1166–1213) is the queen under whom Georgia reached the height of its power and holiness, and whom her own people call not queen b...

• Tancred, Torthred and Tova

  Tancred and Torthred, hermits, and Tova, an anchoress, were solitaries of Thorney in the fenland of eastern England, put to death by the Dan...

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  Tarasius of Constantinople

  Tarasius (c. 730 – 806) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 784 to his death — a layman and imperial secretary raised in a single week thro...

• Tarcisius of Rome

  Tarcisius was a boy of the Roman church in the persecution under Valerian and Gallienus, about the year 257, who was entrusted with carrying...

• Tathuil and Bebaia

  Tathuil (Thathuil, in some sources Thiphael) and his sister Bebaia were martyrs of the second century, remembered for bold and fruitful prea...

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  Tatiana of Rome

  Tatiana of Rome (died c. 226) was a noble Roman virgin and deaconess martyred under the emperor Alexander Severus. Daughter of a man who had...

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  Tation of Claudiopolis

  Tation was a Christian of Bithynia put to death in the persecution of Diocletian, at Claudiopolis — the city of the interior which the Greek...

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  Telemachus

  Telemachus (also Almachius; †c. 404) was an ascetic monk from the East who, according to the historian Theodoret of Cyrrhus, came to Rome an...

• Ten Ascetics of Egypt

  The Greek synaxarion for August 8 commemorates ten unnamed ascetics of Egypt, recording of them only that they were ten, that they were Egyp...

• Ten Martyrs of Constantinople

  Ten Christians of Constantinople — Julian, Marcian, John, James, Alexius, Demetrius, Photius, Peter, Leontius, and Maria the Patrician — wer...

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  Ten Martyrs of Crete

  The Ten Martyrs of Crete — Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zoticus, Pompeius, Agathopus, Basilides and Evaristus — were...

• Ten Thousand Fathers of Nitria

  Under the name of the Myriad — the ten thousand — the Church keeps on July 10 the memory of the monks of the Egyptian desert of Nitria and o...

• Ten Thousand Martyrs

  The Ten Thousand Martyrs are a company of holy martyrs commemorated on March 18, of whom the Greek synaxarion records only that they were be...

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  Terence and Neonilla and Their Children

  Terence and Neonilla were a married couple of Syria who, with their seven children, confessed Christ and were put to death together in the p...

• Terence of Iconium

  Terence, bishop of Iconium in Lycaonia, is commemorated on June 21 as a hieromartyr of the first century — one of the earliest successors of...

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  Tertius, Mark, Justus and Artemas of the Seventy

  Tertius, Mark, Justus and Artemas were four apostles of the Seventy whom the Byzantine calendar commemorates together on October 30. Tertius...

• Tetta of Wimborne

  Tetta (8th century, †c. 772 in the digest tradition) was abbess of the double monastery of Wimborne in Dorset, a royal foundation of the Wes...

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  Thaddaeus of the Seventy

  Thaddaeus — Addai in his own Aramaic — was a Jew of Edessa who came up to Jerusalem, was baptised by John the Forerunner in the Jordan, foll...

• Thaddeus the Confessor

  Thaddeus (†818) was a monk of the great Monastery of Stoudios in Constantinople and a disciple of Theodore the Studite, who suffered as a co...

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  Thais of Alexandria

  Thais — Taisia in the Slavonic books — was a well-born Egyptian girl left an orphan with a fortune, who spent the whole of it turning her ho...

• Thalassius, Limnaeus and Baradates

  Thalassius, Limnaeus and Baradates were three Syrian solitaries of the fifth century, ascetics of the hill-country around Cyrrhus and Antioc...

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  Thalelaeus of Syria

  Thalelaeus the Hermit (†c. 460) was a Syrian solitary of the region near Gabala (Jableh) on the coast of Syria, remembered by his contempora...

• Thalelaeus the Unmercenary

  Thalelaeus (†284) was a young physician of Cilicia who treated the sick without payment and was martyred at the age of about eighteen in the...

• Theagenes of Parium

  Theagenes (Theogenes) of Parium (†c. 320) was a martyr of Parium, a port on the Hellespont in the region of the Troad, put to death by drown...

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  Thecla of Iconium

  Thecla of Iconium (1st century) is honoured by the Orthodox Church as protomartyr among women and equal-to-the-apostles: a noble virgin of I...

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  Themistocles of Myra

  Themistocles (†251) was a shepherd of Myra in Lycia who gave his life to save another. During the persecution of the emperor Decius he shelt...

• Theocharis of Neapolis

  Theocharis was an orphan boy of Cappadocia taken into the household of the Turkish judge of Neapolis — the town the Ottomans called Nevşehir...

• Theoclete the Wonderworker

  Theoclete lived in the ninth century, in the reign of the iconoclast emperor Theophilos (829–842), in the theme of the Optimatoi on the Asia...

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  Theoctista of Lesbos

  Theoctista of Lesbos (9th century) was a nun of the island of Lesbos who, seized in a Saracen pirate raid, escaped on the deserted island of...

• Theoctistus of Chernigov

  Theoctistus was a monk of the Kiev Caves, its igumen from 1103, and from 1113 the bishop of Chernigov — a career that spans the two decades...

• Theoctistus of Cucumo

  Theoctistus (†c. 800) was the founder and first abbot of a monastery at Cucumo in Sicily — the modern Caccamo, near Palermo — in the age of...

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  Theoctistus of Palestine

  Theoctistus (died 467) was one of the founding fathers of Palestinian desert monasticism, remembered above all as the inseparable companion...

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  Theodora and Didymus of Alexandria

  Theodora, a Christian virgin of Alexandria, and Didymus, a Christian soldier who saved her honour at the cost of his life, were martyred tog...

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  Theodora of Alexandria

  Theodora of Alexandria (died c. 490) is one of the most celebrated penitents of the Orthodox calendar: a married woman of Alexandria who, ha...

• Theodora of Sihla

  Theodora is the great woman hermit of the Romanian mountains: born at Vânători in the county of Neamț in the first half of the seventeenth c...

• Theodora of Thessalonica

  Theodora (812–892) was a married woman of Aegina who came as a refugee to Thessalonica from the Arab raids on the Aegean, was widowed there,...

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  Theodora the Empress

  Theodora (c. 815 – c. 867) was the Byzantine empress who restored the veneration of the holy icons and so ended, once and for all, the long...

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  Theodore Stratelates

  Theodore Stratelates (†319) — "the Commander," from the Greek stratelates, a general — was a Roman military officer of the early fourth cent...

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  Theodore Trichinas

  Theodore, called Trichinas ("the Hairy" or "the Hair-shirt Wearer"), was an ascetic of the region of Constantinople who, for love of Christ,...

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  Theodore Ushakov

  Theodore Ushakov (1745–1817) was the admiral who created the Russian Black Sea fleet and never lost to it a battle, a ship, or a man into ca...

• Theodore Yaroslavich

  Theodore (1218 – June 5, 1233) was the eldest son of Grand Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich and the elder brother of Alexander Nevsky. Set over...

• Theodore and Basil of the Kiev Caves

  Theodore and Basil were monks of the Monastery of the Caves at Kiev who were tortured to death in 1098 by Prince Mstislav Svyatopolkovich ov...

• Theodore and John the Varangians

  Theodore, a Varangian who had taken service in Byzantium and been baptised there, and his young son John, were killed by a pagan mob at Kiev...

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  Theodore of Alexandria

  Theodore of Alexandria is remembered in the Byzantine synaxaria as a bishop of that city and a martyr: a bold preacher whom the pagans seize...

• Theodore of Antioch

  Theodore of Antioch was a young confessor of the reign of Julian the Apostate (361–363). A youth of about fifteen, he took part in returning...

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  Theodore of Constantinople

  Theodore I (†c. 686/687) was Archbishop and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in the difficult decade after the Sixth Ecumenical Counci...

• Theodore of Cyrene

  Theodore, bishop of Cyrene in the Libyan Pentapolis, was a calligrapher — a copyist who wrote out the books of the Church with his own hand...

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  Theodore of Edessa

  Theodore, called the Sabbaite from the Palestinian lavra in which he spent most of his life, was a native of Edessa in Mesopotamia who was o...