Saints

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  Ahijah the Shilonite

  Ahijah the Shilonite (in Greek Achias) was a prophet of the tenth century before Christ, from the ancient sanctuary town of Shiloh, active i...

• Aidan of Lindisfarne

  Aidan was an Irish monk of Iona sent in 635 at the request of King Oswald of Northumbria to convert the English of the north, who made his s...

• Ailbe of Emly

  Ailbe (Ailbhe, Latin Albeus) is the patron of Munster and by tradition the first bishop of Emly (Imlech Ibair) in Tipperary, remembered in I...

• Aithalas of Persia

  Aithalas was a deacon of the Church in Persia who was put to death for Christ around the year 380, during the long persecution of Christians...

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  Akepsimas, Joseph and Aithalas

  Akepsimas, Joseph and Aithalas were leaders of the Church in Persia — a bishop, a priest, and a deacon — martyred under the Sassanid king Sh...

• Martyrs of Alapaevsk

  On the night of 18 July 1918 — the night after the shooting of the imperial family at Ekaterinburg — eight prisoners held at the Urals facto...

• Alban of Britain

  Alban is the protomartyr of Britain: a citizen of the Romano-British town of Verulamium who sheltered a Christian priest fleeing persecution...

• Albian of Anaea

  Albian (also Olbian or Alvian), bishop of Anaea in the Roman province of Asia, suffered about the year 304 in the persecution of Diocletian...

• Albianos the Venerable

  Albianos is a monastic saint of whom the calendar of Constantinople preserves one clause. Under May 25, beside the Third Finding of the Prec...

• Alcmund of Hexham

  Alcmund (†780/781) was the seventh bishop of Hexham in Northumbria, holding the see of Wilfrid, John of Beverley and Acca from his consecrat...

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  Alexander Hotovitzky

  Alexander Hotovitzky (1872 – autumn 1937), protopresbyter, was the builder-priest of Orthodox New York and, in his last years, the right han...

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  Alexander Nevsky

  Alexander Nevsky (1220–1263) was Prince of Novgorod and Great Prince of Vladimir, the pre-eminent prince-saint of medieval Russia. In an age...

• Alexander and Antonina

  Antonina was a Christian virgin of Krodamon in Asia Minor, celebrated for her beauty and her almsgiving, who was denounced to the governor F...

• Alexander and Asterius of Aegae

  Alexander and Asterius were the two men of the prefect's service in Cilicia who were ordered to bore through the knees of the young physicia...

• Alexander of Adrianople and Companions

  Alexander, bishop of Adrianople in Thrace, was a hieromartyr of the third century who preached the Gospel boldly among the pagans of his cit...

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  Alexander of Alexandria

  Alexander, archbishop and pope of Alexandria from 313 until his death, is the hierarch who first identified and condemned the heresy of Ariu...

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  Alexander of Comana

  Alexander, called the Charcoal-burner, is one of the most attractive figures of the third-century Church in Pontus: a trained philosopher wh...

• Alexander of Jerusalem

  Alexander of Jerusalem (died c. 251) was a bishop of the early third century, remembered as a disciple of Clement of Alexandria and fellow-s...

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  Alexander of Kushta

  Alexander of Kushta (c. 1371–1439) was one of the founders of the monastic wilderness of the Vologda north. Tonsured on the island monastery...

• Alexander of Pydna

  Alexander (died c. 305) was a priest of Pydna, a town on the coast of Macedonia south of Thessalonica, and a hieromartyr of the last great p...

• Alexander of Rome

  Alexander (†c. 119) was, by the ancient reckoning, the fifth Bishop of Rome after the Apostle Peter, who held the see for about ten years in...

• Alexander of Rome the Soldier

  Alexander was a young soldier of the regiment of the Tiberiani at Rome, brought up a Christian by his mother Pimenia, who at the age of eigh...

• Alexander of Side

  Alexander (†c. 270–275) was a priest of Side, the port-city of Pamphylia on the southern coast of Asia Minor, who suffered martyrdom in the...

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  Alexander of Svir

  Alexander of Svir (1448–1533) is the great luminary of monasticism in the forests of the Russian north-east, and the one saint of the Russia...

• Alexander the Sleepless

  Alexander the Sleepless (c. 350 – c. 430) was the founder of the Acoemetae (Greek Ἀκοίμητοι, "the Unsleeping" or "Sleepless Ones"), the monk...

• Alexander, Alphius, Zosimas, Mark and their Companions

  The martyrs Alexander, Alphius, Zosimas, Mark the Shepherd, Nicon, Neon, Heliodorus and some thirty companions suffered in the persecution o...

• Alexander, Barbarus and Acolythus

  Alexander, Barbarus and Acolythus are three martyrs of whom the Synaxarion of Constantinople preserves almost nothing beyond the essentials:...

• Alexander, John and Paul the New, Patriarchs of Constantinople

  August 30 gathers into a single office three archbishops of Constantinople who never met, whose lives lie four and a half centuries apart, a...

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  Alexandra the Empress

  Alexandra, honoured as the wife of the emperor Diocletian, is the most exalted of the converts won by the sufferings of George the Great Mar...

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  Alexis Toth

  Alexis Toth (1854–1909) was a Carpatho-Russian priest of the Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church who came to Minneapolis in 1889, was refused rec...

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  Alexis of Moscow

  Alexis (c. 1292/1305 – 1378) was Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia and one of the great architects of Muscovite Russia — a saint remembere...

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  Alexis the Man of God

  Alexis the Man of God (died c. 411) is one of the most beloved saints of the undivided Church — a young Roman nobleman who, on his own weddi...

• Alexius of Bithynia

  Alexius is a bishop in Bithynia commemorated in the Greek synaxaria on June 10, of whom the record preserves nothing but the name, the provi...

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  Alexius of Bortsurmany

  Alexius Gnevushev (1762–1848) was a village priest of the Volga country who served one parish, the church of the Dormition at Bortsurmany in...

• Alonius of Scetis

  Alonius is one of the Desert Fathers of Egypt, an ascetic of Scetis of the generation that the Sayings of the Fathers preserves, remembered...

• Alphius, Philadelphus and Cyprian of Lentini

  Three brothers of a noble Italian house — Alphius, Philadelphus and Cyprian (called Cyrinus in the Latin books and Kyprinos in the Greek) —...

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  Alypius the Iconographer

  Alypius (†17 August 1114) is the first icon-painter of the Russian Church whose name is known, and the founder of its whole tradition of pai...

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  Alypius the Stylite

  Alypius the Stylite (c. 522–640) was the great pillar-saint of Adrianopolis in Paphlagonia, who is said to have stood upon his column for mo...

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  Ambrose of Milan

  Ambrose of Milan (c. 339–397) was one of the four great Latin Doctors of the Western Church and, with Augustine, Jerome and Gregory the Grea...

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  Ambrose of Optina

  Ambrose of Optina (1812–1891) is the most celebrated of the elders of the Optina hermitage and one of the best-loved saints of nineteenth-ce...

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  Ammon of Egypt

  Ammon of Egypt (Amun of Nitria, c. 290–c. 350) was the founder of the great monastic settlement of the Nitrian desert, the first of the asce...

• Ammonas

  Ammonas (died early fifth century) was a disciple of Anthony the Great and, at Anthony's withdrawal to the Inner Mountain, his successor as...

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  Amos the Prophet

  Amos (8th century BC) was a herdsman and dresser of sycamore figs from Tekoa in the Judaean hill-country who was taken from behind his flock...

• Amphian and Aedesius

  Amphian and Aedesius were brothers of a noble family of Lycia, students at the great schools of Berytus (Beirut) and converts to Christ, who...

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  Amphilochius of Iconium

  Amphilochius of Iconium (c. 340–c. 394) was a bishop of the Cappadocian circle, kinsman of Gregory the Theologian and intimate friend of Bas...

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  Ananias of Damascus

  Ananias of Damascus, numbered among the Seventy Apostles, is the disciple to whom the Lord appeared in a vision after the conversion of Saul...

• Ananias of Persia

  Ananias the Persian was a martyr of the Church in Persia, put to death for his confession of Christ in the fourth century, during the long p...

• Ananias the Iconographer

  Ananias was a monk of the Monastery of Saint Antony the Roman at Novgorod and a painter of icons, remembered for two things: the beauty of t...

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  Ananias, Azarias and Misael

  Ananias, Azarias and Misael — by their Hebrew names Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, and by the Babylonian names given them in exile Shadrach,...

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  Ananias, Peter and the Seven Soldiers

  Ananias, a presbyter in the province of Phoenicia, and with him Peter, the keeper of the prison, and seven soldiers, were martyred in the pe...