Saints

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  Synaxis of the Saints of Radonezh

  The Synaxis of the Saints of Radonezh is the common commemoration of the whole company of saints connected with the Trinity–Sergius Lavra an...

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  Raphael of Brooklyn

  Raphael Hawaweeny (1860–1915) was the first Orthodox bishop consecrated on North American soil and the shepherd of the scattered Arab Orthod...

• Raphael, Nicholas and Irene of Lesbos

  The strangest entry in the modern Greek calendar, and one of the few saints in this collection whose whole biography reached the Church afte...

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  Razhden the Persian

  Razhden was a Persian nobleman who came to Kartli (eastern Georgia) in the retinue of the Persian princess Balenduxt when she was given in m...

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  Reginos of Skopelos

  Reginos (late 3rd century – 362) was Bishop of Skopelos, the island of the Northern Sporades in the Aegean, and a hieromartyr of the reign o...

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  Rhais of Alexandria

  Rhais (Irais, Iraida; in Russian usage Raisa) was a virgin of Alexandria who suffered martyrdom in Egypt around the year 308, in the last gr...

• Rhuddlad of Llanrhyddlad

  Rhuddlad (or Rhyddlad; by convention 7th century) is the patroness of Llanrhyddlad — "the church of Rhuddlad" — at the foot of Moel Rhyddlad...

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  Ripsimia, Gaiana and the Virgin-Martyrs of Armenia

  Ripsimia (Hripsime), the eldress Gaiana (Gayane), and the company of consecrated virgins with them (†c. 300) fled the emperor Diocletian — w...

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  Roman of Kirzhach

  Roman (†1392) was a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh and the first abbot of the monastery of the Annunciation on the river Kirzhach, in the V...

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  Roman of Ryazan

  Roman Olegovich, prince of Ryazan (c. 1237 – 19 July 1270), was the grandson of princes who died fighting Batu, and the last of his house to...

• Romanos of Cilicia

  Romanos of Cilicia was a hermit of the fifth century who, though a native of Rhoson in Cilicia, passed his ascetic life in a cave near Antio...

• Romanos of Karpenisi

  Romanos (died 1694) was a new venerable-martyr of the Ottoman period, born at Karpenisi in the mountains of central Greece, who took up the...

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  Romanus of Antioch and Barulas

  Romanus (†303) was a deacon of the church of Caesarea in Palestine who, during the Great Persecution, was staying at Antioch and there boldl...

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  Romanus the Melodist

  Romanus the Melodist (c. 490–c. 556) is the greatest of Orthodox hymnographers: a Syrian from Emesa who served as deacon in Beirut and then...

• Romanus the Soldier

  Romanus was a soldier of the guard set over the imprisoned archdeacon Laurence at Rome in August 258. Watching the tortures, he saw — so the...

• Romanus, Teletius and Christina of Nicomedia

  A company of martyrs of Nicomedia in Bithynia — Romanus, Teletius (also transmitted as Meletius) and Christina, together with what the Greek...

• Rostislav of Moravia

  Rostislav (Rastislav, †c. 870) was Prince of Great Moravia from 846, the ruler whose embassy to Constantinople in 862 brought Cyril and Meth...

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  Rostislav-Michael of Kiev

  Rostislav Mstislavich (c. 1110 – 1167), called Michael in holy baptism, was Prince of Smolensk and thrice Grand Prince of Kiev, a grandson o...

• Royal Martyrs of Russia

  In the cellar of a requisitioned merchant's house at Yekaterinburg, on the night of 16–17 July 1918 — the 4th of July by the church reckonin...

• Rufus and Rufianus

  Rufus and Rufianus were brothers (the Greek synaxarion calls them αὐτάδελφοι, "brothers of one blood") who were martyred for Christ by behea...

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  Sabbas Stratelates

  Sabbas the Stratelates — "the General" — was a Goth by birth who rose by his courage to high command in the Roman army under the emperor Aur...

• Sabbas of Benephali

  Sabbas of Benephali is a monastic saint who survives in the calendars as a name and a place and nothing else. He stands in the Greek synaxar...

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  Sabbas of Krypetsk

  Sabbas of Krypetsk (†1495) was an Athonite monk who came north into the Russian lands, spent some years in the crowded monasteries of the Ps...

• Sabbas of Moscow

  Sabbas (†1410) was the disciple of Andronicus of Moscow and the second abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour on the Yauza — the Andronikov m...

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  Sabbas of Serbia

  Sabbas (Sava, c. 1174 – 1236), born Rastko Nemanjić, youngest son of the Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja, is the father of the Serbian C...

• Sabbas of Stagira

  Sabbas was a monk of the Athonite Monastery of Konstamonitou, born at Stagira in Chalkidiki in the later eighteenth century, who was killed...

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  Sabbas of Storozhevsk

  Sabbas of Storozhevsk (Savva of Zvenigorod, †1406) was one of the first and closest disciples of Sergius of Radonezh, tonsured by him in his...

• Sabbas the Goth

  Sabbas was a Gothic Christian, a reader and singer of the church among his people north of the Danube, who was drowned in the river Mousaios...

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  Sabbas the Sanctified

  Sabbas the Sanctified (439–532) was the great organiser of monasticism in the Judaean desert and one of the most influential ascetics in the...

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  Sabbatius of Solovki

  Sabbatius of Solovki (†1435) was the first hermit of the Solovki islands in the White Sea and, with Herman and Zosimas, is venerated as a fo...

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  Sabinus of Catania

  Sabinus (†c. 760) was a bishop of Catania in Sicily who laid down his see for the wilderness: consecrated against his inclination, he soon w...

• Sabinus of Cyprus

  Sabinus was the disciple, biographer and successor of Epiphanius of Cyprus. Tonsured by Epiphanius and his companion in the ascetic life for...

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  Sabinus of Egypt

  Sabinus (†c. 287) was a martyr of Hermopolis in Egypt — a leading citizen, and by some accounts the governor of the city, who in the persecu...

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  Sadoth of Persia

  Sadoth (Syriac Shahdost, "friend of the king"; Slavic Sadoc) was the second bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the royal city of Persia, succeedi...

• Salaman the Silent

  Salaman the Silent (died c. 400) was a hermit of the Euphrates country in Syria, one of the ascetics whose lives Theodoret of Cyrrhus record...

• Salome the Georgian

  Salome was a Georgian nun of the women's community attached to the Monastery of the Cross at Jerusalem in the thirteenth century, who was se...

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  Salome the Myrrhbearer

  Salome is the wife of Zebedee and the mother of the apostles James and John, and one of the myrrhbearing women who followed Christ from Gali...

• Salon the Roman

  Salon — the name appears also as Salonas — is known from one line of the Synaxarion of Constantinople, kept in the Greek Menaion for May 23:...

• Martyrs of Samosata

  The seven Martyrs of Samosata — Romanus, James, Philotheus, Hyperechius, Abibus, Julian and Paregorius — suffered together about the year 29...

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  Sampson the Hospitable

  Sampson the Hospitable was a Roman-born physician who gave away a great inheritance, settled at Constantinople, and turned his own house int...

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  Samuel the Prophet

  Samuel (eleventh century BC) stands at the hinge of the Old Testament: the last of the Judges and the first of the great line of prophets af...

• Sarah of Sketis

  Sarah is one of the three women — with Theodora and Synkletike — whose sayings were gathered into the alphabetical collection of the Sayings...

• Sarbelus of Edessa

  Sarbelus (Syriac Sharbil) was the chief pagan priest of Edessa in Mesopotamia under the emperor Trajan (98–117), converted to Christ with hi...

• Sarmatas the Ascetic

  Sarmatas is one of the desert fathers of Egypt, known not from a Life but from the sayings-collections — the Apophthegmata (the "Paradise of...

• Sarmean of Kartli

  Sarmean was Catholicos of Kartli — primate of the Church of Georgia — from about 767 to 774, in the hardest years of the Arab domination, wh...

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  Sava II of Serbia

  Sava the Second (c. 1201 – 1271), born Predislav Nemanjić, was the third Archbishop of Serbia, a prince of the Nemanjić house who followed h...

• Sava III of Serbia

  Sava the Third was Archbishop of Serbia from 1309 to 1316, the seventh successor of Sava the First on the throne of the autocephalous Serbia...

• Scholastica

  Scholastica (c. 480 – c. 543) was the sister — by an early tradition the twin — of Benedict of Nursia, the father of Western monasticism, an...

• Sebastian of Poshekhonye

  Sebastian of Poshekhonye (†c. 1500) was a Russian monastic saint, the founder and first abbot of a hermitage in the forested Poshekhonye cou...

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  Sebastian of Rome

  Sebastian (d. c. 288) was, by the tradition received in both East and West, an officer of the Roman army under Diocletian — captain of the i...