Saints

• Sebastiana of Heraclea

  Sebastiana is venerated as a disciple of the Apostle Paul who won the martyr's crown in old age under the emperor Domitian (81–96). Tried fi...

• Seleucus

  Seleucus is one of the martyrs whose whole surviving record is a single line of the Synaxarion of Constantinople, preserved in the Greek Men...

• Seraphim of Domvou

  Seraphim, in the world Sotiris, was born in 1527 in a village of Boeotia and gave his whole life to the monasteries of central Greece under...

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  Seraphim of Sarov

  Seraphim of Sarov (1754–1833), born Prochorus Moshnin of Kursk, is among the most beloved saints of the modern Orthodox world — a hieromonk...

• Seraphima of Antioch

  Seraphima — Serapia in the Latin books, Seraphima in the Slavonic — was a Christian virgin of Antioch on the Orontes who came to Rome in the...

• Serapion of David Gareji

  Serapion was abbot of the monastery of St John the Baptist in the David Gareji wilderness of Kakheti, in the eighteenth century — the last a...

• Serapion of Kozheozero

  Serapion was a Tatar prince of Kazan, born Turtas Gravirovich, who was taken to Moscow after the campaigns of the 1550s, was baptised there...

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  Serapion of Novgorod

  Serapion (c. 1450 – 1516) was a Russian monastic saint and hierarch — hegumen of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and afterwards Archbishop of Novg...

• Serapion of Thmuis

  Serapion (c. 300 – after 362) was bishop of Thmuis in the Egyptian Delta, a monk of the Nitrian desert before his consecration, the intimate...

• Serapion the Martyr

  Serapion is a martyr of the persecution under the emperor Septimius Severus, put to death about the year 205 by burning. The synaxarion noti...

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  Serapion the Sindonite

  Serapion the Sindonite is the Egyptian ascetic who owned nothing at all but a single coarse linen cloth — the sindōn that gave him his name...

• Synaxis of the Serbian Hierarchs

  On August 30 the Serbian Church, and with it the Russian Church and the OCA, keeps a single office for the whole line of archbishops and pat...

• Sergius Strelnikov

  Sergius Strelnikov was a village priest of the Vyatka country who served the church of St John the Forerunner at Orshanka, in what is now th...

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  Sergius and Bacchus

  Sergius and Bacchus (†c. 303–305) were Roman officers of high rank and favourites of the emperor, exposed as Christians when they refused to...

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  Sergius and Herman of Valaam

  Sergius and Herman are venerated as the founders of the Monastery of the Transfiguration on Valaam, the great island house in the northern r...

• Sergius and Stephen

  Sergius and Stephen are two monastic fathers commemorated together in the Greek synaxaria on August 12, of whom the record preserves two nam...

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  Sergius of Radonezh

  Sergius of Radonezh (1314–1392) is the greatest monastic saint of Russia and one of the most beloved figures of all Orthodoxy. Born Bartholo...

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  Sergius of Shukhtom

  Sergius of Shukhtom (c. 1530 – 19 May 1609) was a schema-monk of the Vologda north whose long life divided into two halves: some fifty years...

• Sergius the Confessor

  Sergius was a patrician of Constantinople, of one of the great families of the city, and the father of Photius the Great; he was closely aki...

• Sergius the Magistros

  Sergius, called the Magistros from the high Byzantine dignity he held, was a nobleman of Niketia in Paphlagonia, on the Black Sea coast near...

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  Seven Maccabee Martyrs

  The seven Maccabee brothers, their mother Solomonia and their aged teacher Eleazar are the Church's Old Testament martyrs: Jews of Judaea wh...

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  Seven Youths of Ephesus

  The Seven Youths of Ephesus — Maximilian, Iamblichus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodianus (also called Constantine), and Antoninus —...

• Seventeen Monastic Martyrs of India

  The Seventeen Monastic Martyrs of India are a company of monks commemorated on November 27, known from the celebrated story of Barlaam and J...

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  Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles

  On January 4 the Church keeps the Synaxis — the common assembly — of the Seventy Apostles, that second and wider company whom the Lord "appo...

• Seventy Martyrs of Scythopolis

  A company of seventy martyrs who suffered at Scythopolis in Palestine — the Greek city on the site of biblical Beth-shean, in the Jordan val...

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  Severian of Sebaste

  Severian (†320) was a nobleman of Sebaste in Armenia who suffered martyrdom under the emperor Licinius, in the same persecution and the same...

• Severus and Artemidorus

  Severus and Artemidorus are martyrs commemorated together on September 8, each known from a single line of the Greek synaxarion: Severus was...

• Severus, Memnon and the Thirty-Seven Martyrs

  A company of thirty-nine martyrs of Thrace, put to death in the persecution of Diocletian about the year 304 and commemorated together on Au...

• Sexburga of Ely

  Sexburga was a daughter of Anna, King of the East Angles, one of the most remarkable saint-bearing families of the English Church, and becam...

• Shalva of Akhaltsikhe

  A Georgian commander of the generation that won the great victories of Queen Tamar and lived to see them undone. Shalva of Akhaltsikhe, of t...

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  Shio of Mgvime

  Shio was one of the Thirteen Syrian Fathers who came into Georgia in the sixth century from the ascetic tradition of Antioch under the leade...

• Shio the New and the Martyrs of Gareji

  At the end of the seventeenth century a band of Dagestani raiders fell upon the cave-monastery of David-Gareji in the semi-desert of Kakheti...

• Shushanik of Georgia

  Shushanik — the Slavic books call her Susanna — was an Armenian noblewoman, daughter of the general Vardan Mamikonian who fell at Avarayr, a...

• Sigebert of East Anglia

  Sigebert (Sigeberht, †630s×640s) was king of the East Angles, converted and educated in Gaul during an exile, under whom East Anglia was dec...

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  Silas, Silvanus, Crescens and Epaenetus

  On July 30 the Church keeps together four apostles of the Seventy whose names stand in the New Testament itself: Silas, the prophet and "chi...

• Silin

  Silin is the saint whom the Welsh calendars commemorate on September 1 and to whom a notable group of Welsh churches is dedicated — the grea...

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  Silouan the Athonite

  Silouan the Athonite (1866–1938) is the great monastic saint of the twentieth century: a barely lettered Russian peasant from Tambov provinc...

• Silvan of Gaza

  Silvan of Gaza (†311) is one of the last martyrs of the great persecution in Palestine, and one of the few saints of his rank whose death is...

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  Silvanus of Emesa

  Silvanus, Bishop of Emesa in Phoenicia Libanensis (modern Homs, in Syria), was an aged hierarch given to the wild beasts in the amphitheatre...

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  Silvanus of the Kiev Caves

  Silvanus was a schemamonk of the Far Caves of the Monastery of the Caves at Kiev, who laboured there in the thirteenth and fourteenth centur...

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  Silvester of Rome

  Silvester of Rome (†335) was bishop of Rome from 314 to 335, through the whole reign of Constantine the Great after the peace of the Church...

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  Simeon of Jerusalem

  Simeon, son of Clopas, was the second bishop of Jerusalem and a kinsman of the Lord according to the flesh — by the witness of Hegesippus a...

• Simeon of Persia and Companions

  Simeon bar Sabbae (Shemʿon), Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the capital of the Persian empire, was the head of the Church of Persia and the g...

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  Simeon of Verkhoturye

  Simeon of Verkhoturye (c. 1607–1642) is the most beloved saint of the Russian Urals and Siberia — a nobleman who hid his birth to live as a...

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  Simeon the Myrrh-gusher of Serbia

  Simeon the Myrrh-gusher (c. 1113 – 1199), born Stefan Nemanja, was the Grand Župan (grand prince) who gathered the scattered Serbian lands i...

• Simeon, Isaac and Bachtisius of Persia

  Simeon, Isaac and Bachtisius were Christians of the Persian empire who died for refusing to renounce Christ and to conform to the state reli...

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  Simon of Vladimir

  Simon (†1226) was a monk of the Kiev Caves who became abbot of the Nativity monastery at Vladimir and, in 1214, the first bishop of the newl...

• Simon the Myrrh-gusher

  Simon the Myrrh-gusher (†c. 1287) was a hermit of Mount Athos and the founder of the monastery of Simonopetra — "Simon's Rock" — one of the...

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  Simon the Zealot

  Simon the Zealot is the eleventh name in every apostolic list of the New Testament and one of the Twelve of whom the Gospels record nothing...

• Sisinius of Cyzicus

  Sisinius of Cyzicus was a confessor and bishop of the early fourth century. During the persecution of Diocletian he was condemned to be drag...