Saints

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  Nikon Metanoeite

  Nikon Metanoeite (c. 930–998) — "Preach Repentance" — was the great missionary monk of the tenth-century Byzantine world, whose whole preach...

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  Nikon of Optina

  Nikon (Belyaev) was the last of the elders of Optina. A Moscow merchant's son who entered the hermitage at eighteen and became the cell-atte...

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  Nikon of Radonezh

  Nikon of Radonezh (c. 1352–1426) was the disciple, chosen successor, and second abbot of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, the foremost monastery o...

• Nilus of Erikoussa

  Nilus the Erikousian was a prince of the house of Laskaris who became a monk, a wanderer and at last a founder. Born at Constantinople as Ni...

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  Nilus of Sora

  Nilus of Sora (c. 1433–1508), called in Russian Nil Sorsky, is the greatest representative of the contemplative tradition in the Russian Chu...

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  Nilus of Stolobny

  Nilus of Stolobny (died 1554) was one of the great hermit-ascetics of northern Russia, who spent twenty-six years in absolute solitude on a...

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  Nilus the Faster

  Nilus the Faster (died c. 430), also called Nilus the Ascetic and, in the later tradition, Nilus of Sinai, is one of the most prolific ascet...

• Nilus the Myrrh-gusher

  Nilus the Myrrh-gusher (c. 1601–1651) was a Greek hieromonk of Mount Athos who ended his life as a solitary in a nearly inaccessible cave on...

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  Nina of Georgia

  Nina (Nino, c. 280 – c. 335) is the Enlightener of Georgia, the Equal-to-the-Apostles whose preaching converted the kingdom of Iberia (easte...

• Nine Kherkheulidze Brothers and the Martyrs of Marabda

  On 1 July 1625, on the field of Marabda in Kvemo Kartli, a Georgian army of some twenty thousand under King Teimuraz I and Giorgi Saakadze m...

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  Nine Martyrs of Cyzicus

  Nine Christians of differing rank and trade — Theognis, Rufus, Antipater, Theostichus, Artemas, Magnus, Theodotus, Thaumasius and Philemon —...

• Nine Martyrs of Perge

  Nine countrymen of Perge in Pamphylia — Leontius, Attius, Alexander, Cindeus, Mnesitheus, Cyriacus, Mineon, Catanus and Eucleus — eight of t...

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  Ninety-nine Fathers of Crete

  The Ninety-nine Holy Fathers were ascetics of the island of Crete, commemorated together on October 7. The synaxarion transmits no date and...

• Ninian of Whithorn

  Ninian (Latin Nynia; in Scotland Ringan, in northern England Trynnian) is the first named apostle of what is now Scotland: a Briton, instruc...

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  Niphon II of Constantinople

  Niphon II (born Nicholas in the Morea, c. 1435–40; †11 August 1508) was three times elected Ecumenical Patriarch in the first generation of...

• Niphon of Athos

  Niphon, a priest's son from the Epirot village of Loukovo, was a monk of the Holy Mountain in the fourteenth century and one of the small co...

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  Nonna

  Nonna was the mother of Gregory the Theologian, and the head — under God, and by her own praying — of the most extraordinary household of sa...

• Nymphas and Eubulus

  Nymphas and Eubulus were two of the Seventy Apostles — the wider circle of disciples sent out by the Lord (Luke 10) and, in the tradition, r...

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  Obadiah the Prophet

  Obadiah — Abdias in the Greek of the Septuagint and the Byzantine service books — is the fourth of the Twelve Minor Prophets and the author...

• Oleg of Briansk

  Oleg Romanovich (†c. 1285), prince of Briansk — Leontius in baptism, Basil in the schema — was the grandson of the martyred Michael of Chern...

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  Olga of Kiev

  Olga (†11 July 969), Grand Princess of Kiev and in holy baptism Helen, is the first ruler of the Rus to be baptised and the first saint of t...

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  Olympas, Rodion, Sosipater, Erastus, Quartus and Tertius of the Seventy

  These six apostles of the Seventy are all named by the Apostle Paul in the sixteenth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, and the Byzantine...

• Olympia and Euphrosyne of Lesbos

  Olympia and Euphrosyne were nuns of the monastery of Karyes at Thermi on Lesbos, put to death by pirates in 1235 — Olympia the young abbess...

• Olympias the Deaconess

  Olympias (c. 361–408) was the greatest of the deaconesses of Constantinople: an orphaned heiress of the senatorial aristocracy, widowed with...

• Onesimus of Magnesia

  Onesimus, called the Wonderworker, was a monastic father of the fourth century, born at Caesarea in Palestine and formed in the monastic lif...

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  Onesimus the Apostle

  Onesimus (Greek Ὀνήσιμος, "useful, profitable") is the runaway slave of the Epistle to Philemon: a servant of Philemon of Colossae who fled...

• Onesimus the Recluse of the Kiev Caves

  Onesimus was a monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra who enclosed himself in the Near (Antonian) Caves and lived out his life there as a zatvornik, a...

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  Onesiphorus and Porphyrius

  Onesiphorus and Porphyrius were two martyrs who suffered together during the persecution of the emperor Diocletian (284–305). Having confess...

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  Onesiphorus of the Seventy

  Onesiphorus (1st century) is the disciple whom the Apostle Paul blesses by name in his last letter: "he often refreshed me, and was not asha...

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  Onuphrius the Great

  Onuphrius the Great is the most famous of the naked anchorites of the deep Egyptian desert: a monk of the coenobium of Eratus near Hermopoli...

• Onuphrius the Silent of the Kiev Caves

  Onuphrius, called the Silent (molchalivy), was a monk of the Near (Antonian) Caves of the Kiev Caves Lavra in the twelfth century, whose who...

• Oraiozele of Byzantium

  Oraiozele — the name means something like "beautiful in zeal" — belongs to the small group of saints attached to the first preaching of the...

• Orentius and his Six Brothers

  Seven brothers — Orentius, Pharnacius, Eros, Firmus, Firminus, Cyriacus and Longinus — served as soldiers in Thrace under Diocletian, and we...

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  Orestes of Cappadocia

  Orestes (†c. 304) was a physician and soldier of Tyana in Cappadocia who suffered martyrdom for Christ in the persecution of Diocletian. Bro...

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  Oswald of Northumbria

  Oswald was king of Northumbria from 634 to 642, and the man through whom the north of England became Christian. Baptised in exile among the...

• Oswin of Deira

  Oswin, king of Deira — the southern half of Northumbria — from about 644 until 651, is the humblest of the royal saints of the English conve...

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  Pachomius the Great

  Pachomius is the father of cenobitic monasticism — the man who took the solitary ascetic life of the Egyptian desert and gave it a common ta...

• Paisios the Athonite

  Paisios of the Holy Mountain (1924–1994) was a Cappadocian-born Greek monk who became the most widely sought spiritual father of twentieth-c...

• Paisius Velichkovsky

  Paisius Velichkovsky (1722–1794) was the Ukrainian-born, Athonite and Moldavian elder who, more than any other single figure, revived Orthod...

• Paisius of Galich

  Paisius was abbot, and afterwards archimandrite, of the Dormition monastery on the hill above Lake Galich, in the Kostroma country of northe...

• Paisius of Hilendar

  Paisius was a hieromonk of the Bulgarian brotherhood at the monastery of Hilendar on Mount Athos who, in 1762, finished writing a small book...

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  Paisius of Uglich

  Paisius of Uglich (c. 1397 – 1504) was the founder and first abbot of the Protection (Pokrov) Monastery near Uglich on the Volga, and a wond...

• Paisius of the Far Caves

  Paisius was a monk of the Kiev Caves monastery, of the fourteenth century by the usual reckoning, whose whole memory rests on a single fact...

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  Paisius the Great

  Paisius the Great was an Egyptian ascetic of the Nitrian desert, a disciple of the elder Pambo, and one of the fathers whose austerity the d...

• Palamon of Egypt

  Palamon was an anchorite of the Upper Thebaid in the first quarter of the fourth century, and the spiritual father of Pachomius the Great. W...

• Palladius of Antioch

  Palladius the Hermit (†end of the 4th century) was an ascetic who lived in a mountain cave near Antioch in Syria, where he received from God...

• Palladius of Thessalonica

  Palladius of Thessalonica was a monastic saint of the late sixth and early seventh centuries. Born at Thessalonica, he pursued the ascetic l...

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  Pambo of Nitria

  Pambo (c. 303 – c. 375) was one of the founding fathers of the desert of Nitria, the great monastic settlement south-west of the Delta, and...

• Pambo of the Kiev Caves

  Pambo the Recluse was a hieromonk of the Caves monastery at Kiev who was taken captive by the Tatars in the years of the Mongol conquest, he...

• Pamphilus and Capito

  Pamphilus and Capito are a pair of martyrs entered in the calendars on August 12, of whom the tradition preserves only that they were behead...