Saints

Valentine was bishop of Interamna Nahars — the modern Terni in Umbria, some sixty miles north of Rome — in the third century, and was renown...

Varus (in Slavic usage Uar) was a soldier in Egypt at the opening of the fourth century, a secret Christian who ministered by night to confe...

Venantius was a young nobleman of Gaul, the elder brother of Honoratus, the founder of the great island monastery of Lérins, who with his br...

Vendemianus (Bendimianos) of Bithynia was an ascetic of the late fifth and early sixth centuries, a disciple of the great ascetic Auxentius...

Veronica — Berenice in the Greek, and in the Gospels simply "a woman having an issue of blood twelve years" — is the woman who came up behin...

Victor and Stephanida were martyrs of the second century, put to death at Damascus in the reign of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (161–180). Vi...

Victor was a Christian soldier of the Roman garrison at Massilia — Marseilles — put to death there about the year 290 for going among the im...

Victoria and Anatolia were sisters, Christian maidens of noble family in the Sabine country north-east of Rome, who refused the pagan husban...

Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion and Papias were seven Christians who suffered together at Corinth about the yea...

Vincent of Lérins (†c. 445) was a Gallic monk and priest of the island monastery of Lérins off the coast of Provence, and the author of the...

Vincent of Saragossa (died 304) was a deacon of the Spanish church and the protomartyr of the Iberian peninsula, put to death at Valencia in...

On March 20 the Church commemorates a company of Christian women martyred at Amisus in Pontus (the Black Sea city, modern Samsun) in the las...

Vitalis (†c. 620) was a monk of the great coenobium of Abba Seridos near Gaza who, at the age of sixty, went to Alexandria and there underto...

Vitalis is the martyr in whose honour the emperor Justinian's mosaic masterpiece, the Basilica of San Vitale at Ravenna, was raised over the...

Vitus was a boy of a great pagan house of Sicily or Lucania who was brought to Christ in secret by the two servants who had charge of him —...

Vladimir Yaroslavich (1020–1052), eldest surviving son of Yaroslav the Wise and the Swedish princess Ingegerd (Anna of Novgorod), was prince...

Vladimir Svyatoslavich (c. 958–1015), Great Prince of Kiev, is honoured as Equal-to-the-Apostles because through him an entire people entere...

Vsevolod-Gabriel (†1138) was a prince of the house of Kiev — son of Mstislav the Great and grandson of Vladimir Monomakh — who ruled Novgoro...

Vukašin was a Serbian peasant of Klepci, a village in Herzegovina above the Neretva, whose household was destroyed in the massacres of 1941...