Saints

• Martyrs of Pisidia

  A great company of martyrs beheaded in Pisidia, in the highlands of southern Asia Minor, whose number the manuscripts give as one thousand a...

• 
  Pitirim of Tambov

  Pitirim was the second bishop of Tambov, a frontier diocese on the steppe edge of seventeenth-century Muscovy, where he served thirteen year...

• 
  Plato of Ancyra

  Plato of Ancyra (†c. 306) was a young confessor of Galatia who was martyred in his native city during the Great Persecution. Still in his yo...

• Plutarch and Companions

  Plutarch, Serenus, Heraclides, Heron, a second Serenus and the woman Heraïs were pupils of the catechetical school of Alexandria who were pu...

• Poemen of Palestine

  Poemen of Palestine is a solitary of the Rouba, the wilderness east of Jerusalem, known from a single chapter of the Spiritual Meadow of Joh...

• 
  Poemen the Great

  Poemen — the name means "shepherd" — is the greatest of the Egyptian desert fathers by sheer weight of transmitted teaching: more sayings st...

• Polybius of Rinocorura

  Polybius was the travelling companion, biographer and spiritual son of Epiphanius of Cyprus, and it is largely to him that the Church owes t...

• 
  Polycarp of Smyrna

  Polycarp (c. 69 – c. 155) was bishop of Smyrna, a disciple of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, and — with Ignatius of Antioch...

• 
  Polycarp of the Kiev Caves

  Polycarp was archimandrite of the Caves monastery at Kiev in the second half of the twelfth century, in the generation after the founders, a...

• Polychronius of Babylon

  Polychronius, bishop of Babylon, suffered in the persecution of Decius (249–251) with a company of his own clergy — the priests Parmenius, H...

• Polychronius the Presbyter

  Polychronius was a priest of the fourth century, remembered as a farmer's son whose love of labour and ascetic life, shown in the vineyards...

• Polydorus of Cyprus

  Polydorus (†1794), a merchant's son of Nicosia, is one of the new-martyrs of the Ottoman world whose crown was won out of a fall: drawn into...

• 
  Polyeuctus of Constantinople

  Polyeuctus (died 970) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 956 to 970, a monk of famed asceticism and learning raised to the see in old age,...

• 
  Polyeuctus of Melitene

  Polyeuctus (†c. 259) was a Roman soldier of Melitene in Lesser Armenia and the first martyr of that city — one of the most celebrated martyr...

• Pontius of Cimiez

  Pontius was a young Roman of senatorial family, the spiritual son of Pope Fabian, who spent his inheritance on the poor of the city and whos...

• Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia

  Porphyrios (1906–1991), born Evangelos Bairaktaris, was one of the most beloved elders of the twentieth-century Orthodox Church: a poor shep...

• Porphyrius and Baptus

  Porphyrius and Baptus were two soldiers of Magnesia who, set to torture the aged hieromartyr Charalampus during the persecution of Septimius...

• Porphyrius of Caesarea

  Porphyrius of Caesarea (†c. 270) is the "Holy Martyr Porphyrius" whom the Greek Menaion commemorates on November 4, martyred by the sword. I...

• 
  Porphyrius of Gaza

  Porphyrius (c. 347 – 420) was bishop of Gaza from 395 to his death, and the man who broke the last great stronghold of organized paganism in...

• 
  Porphyrius the Actor

  Porphyrius the Actor (†361) was a mime of the reign of Julian the Apostate who, performing at the celebrations of the emperor's birthday, wa...

• Potamia the Wonderworker

  Potamia is a saint of the Byzantine calendar known from a single line: she was perfected by the sword. Neither her country, her century, the...

• 
  Potamiaena of Alexandria

  Potamiaena was a young Christian woman of Alexandria, in the household of a pagan master who desired her and could not have her. To his dema...

• Potamon of Heraclea

  Potamon, Bishop of Heraclea in Egypt, is the rare saint who was twice a martyr's victim: maimed by the pagans and killed by fellow Christian...

• Pothinus, Blandina and the Martyrs of Lyons

  In the year 177, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, the Christians of Lugdunum (Lyons) and Vienne in Gaul were seized by the mob and the magis...

• Potitus

  Potitus was a boy of the second century who was baptised at thirteen against his pagan father's will, converted that father by his constancy...

• 
  Praxedes of Rome

  Praxedes was a Christian woman of second-century Rome, honoured with her sister Pudentiana as one of the earliest of the Roman virgins: daug...

• Praylius of Jerusalem

  Praylius held the see of Jerusalem for five years, from 417 to 422, between the long episcopate of John II and the still longer one of Juven...

• 
  Priscus of Phrygia

  Priscus was a martyr of Phrygia in Asia Minor, known only from the brief notices of the synaxaria, which record neither the year of his cont...

• 
  Probus, Tarachus and Andronicus

  Probus, Tarachus and Andronicus (†304) are the chief martyrs of October 12: three Christians of very different stations — Tarachus an aged R...

• Prochorus of the Kiev Caves

  Prochorus of the Kiev Caves (died 1107), called Lebednik — "the goosefoot-eater" — was a monk of the Caves monastery famous for an extreme a...

• 
  Prochorus the Deacon

  Prochorus was one of the seven deacons ordained by the Apostles in the earliest days of the Jerusalem church (Acts 6:1–6) and is numbered am...

• Proclus and Hilary of Ancyra

  Proclus and Hilary were kinsmen — uncle and nephew — of the village of Kallippi near Ancyra in Galatia, put to death for Christ under the em...

• 
  Proclus of Constantinople

  Proclus (died 446 or 447) was Archbishop of Constantinople from 434, a disciple and secretary of John Chrysostom whose gifts as a preacher p...

• 
  Procopius of Ustyug

  Procopius of Ustyug (†1303) is the first fool-for-Christ of the Russian land and the patron of Great Ustyug in the far north. By the traditi...

• 
  Procopius the Great Martyr

  Procopius (†303) is the most celebrated of the soldier-martyrs of Palestine and one of the great martyrs of the Eastern Church. The develope...

• Procopius the Reader

  Procopius the Reader (†303) was a reader of the church of Jerusalem, born at Scythopolis, who led a strict ascetic life and was granted the...

• Proculus, Ephebus, Apollonius and Abundius

  Three students from Athens — Proculus, Ephebus and Apollonius — had come to Rome to read rhetoric under the Greek master Craton, and were in...

• 
  Prokopius of Decapolis

  Prokopius the Confessor of Decapolis (†c. 750) was a monk of the region of the Decapolis, east of the Sea of Galilee, who together with his...

• 
  Proterius of Alexandria

  Proterius (†457) was Patriarch of Alexandria from 451 to his death, and a hieromartyr of the Church. A presbyter of Alexandria under the Mon...

• Psoy of Egypt

  Psoy — in Greek Ψόης, Psoes, a Coptic name borne by many monks of the Egyptian desert — is commemorated by the Byzantine books on August 9 a...

• 
  Publia of Antioch

  Publia (Poplia) was an aged deaconess of fourth-century Antioch, a widow who raised her son John to the priesthood and gathered in her house...

• Publius of Athens

  Publius (second century) was Bishop of Athens and a hieromartyr — the shepherd of the Athenian church who was put to death for the confessio...

• Publius of Zeugma

  Publius of Zeugma (early fourth century – c. 380) was a Syrian ascetic and monastic founder, one of the desert fathers of the region of the...

• Pudens of the Seventy

  Pudens was a Christian of Rome, named by the Apostle Paul in the Second Letter to Timothy, and is numbered by the Church among the Seventy A...

• 
  Pulcheria the Empress

  Pulcheria (399–453) was the empress who, more than any other lay person, steered the Church of the fifth century through its two greatest st...

• 
  Quadratus of Athens

  Quadratus (Kodratos), numbered among the Seventy Apostles, preached Christ at Athens and at Magnesia, served as bishop of Athens, and died a...

• 
  Quadratus of Corinth and Companions

  Quadratus of Corinth (third century) was a physician and confessor of Christ whose life began with a wonder: his mother Rufina, fleeing the...

• Quadratus of Nicomedia and Companions

  Quadratus of Nicomedia (third century) was a Christian of an illustrious and wealthy family of Bithynia who, during the persecutions under t...

• Quintus of Phrygia

  Quintus was a Phrygian, brought up a Christian, who settled in the district of Aeolis on the Asian coast and there gave himself to almsgivin...

• Rabulas of Samosata

  Rabulas (c. 450 – c. 530) was a Syrian ascetic of Samosata on the Euphrates who, after taking the monastic habit young and long labouring as...