Saints

• Anastasia of Serbia

  Anastasia — Ana in the world — was the wife of the Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja and the mother of the three men who made mediaeval Se...

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  Anastasia the Deliverer-from-Bonds

  Anastasia the Deliverer-from-Bonds (†c. 304) is one of the great virgin-martyrs of the Church, a noble Roman woman of the persecution of Dio...

• Anastasia the Patrician

  Anastasia the Patrician (c. 510 – c. 567) was a noblewoman of Constantinople, of patrician rank and great beauty, esteemed at the court of t...

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  Anastasia the Roman

  Anastasia the Roman (died c. 256) was an orphan raised from infancy in a community of consecrated virgins near Rome under an abbess named So...

• Anastasius Paneras and Demetrius Begiazes

  Anastasius and Demetrius were two young basket-weavers from Lesbos, working in the Anatolian interior, who were put to death for the faith o...

• Anastasius of Antioch

  Anastasius I, called the Sinaite, was Patriarch of Antioch in the later sixth century — a theologian and defender of Orthodoxy who withstood...

• Anastasius the Fuller

  Anastasius the Fuller was a craftsman — a fuller, who cleaned and dyed cloth — who lived at Salona in Dalmatia, the great Roman city near th...

• Anastasius the Monk and Anastasius the Apocrisiarius

  Anastasius the Monk (†662) and Anastasius the Apocrisiarius (†666) were the two disciples of Maximus the Confessor who shared his struggle a...

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  Anastasius the Persian

  Anastasius the Persian (†628), born Magundat, was a Persian soldier and the son of a magus, who was converted to Christ by the miracles surr...

• Anatolius of Constantinople

  Anatolius (died July 458) was Archbishop of Constantinople from 449 to 458 and the patriarch under whom the Fourth Ecumenical Council met at...

• Anatolius of the Kiev Near Caves

  Anatolius (twelfth century) was a monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra whose relics rest in the Near (Antoniev) Caves and of whom the Paterikon reco...

• Anatolius the Recluse of the Kiev Far Caves

  Anatolius the Recluse (thirteenth century) was a monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra who shut himself into a cell in the Far (Theodosian) Caves and...

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  Andrei Rublev

  Andrei Rublev (c. 1360 – 1428/1430) is the greatest of Russian iconographers and the only one the Church has glorified as a saint for the pa...

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  Andrew Bogoliubsky

  Andrew Bogoliubsky (c. 1111–1174), son of Yuri Dolgoruky and grandson of Vladimir Monomakh, is the great prince who moved the centre of grav...

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  Andrew Stratelates

  Andrew, called Stratelates — "the General" — was a Roman field commander of the eastern armies under Maximian who won a victory over a Persi...

• Andrew and Probus

  Two martyrs of whom the Byzantine synaxaria preserve nothing but their names, their day, and the manner of their death: Andrew and Probus we...

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  Andrew of Crete

  Andrew of Crete (c. 650 – c. 740), called the Jerusalemite, is the archbishop of Gortyna in Crete who stands at the head of Byzantine hymnog...

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  Andrew of Crete the Martyr

  Andrew of Crete (†767), called "of Krisis" after the quarter of Constantinople where his relics came to rest, was a Cretan monk who gave his...

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  Andrew the First-Called

  Andrew the First-Called (first century) was a fisherman of Bethsaida, the brother of Simon Peter, and — as a disciple of John the Baptist wh...

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  Andrew the Fool-for-Christ

  Andrew the Fool-for-Christ (†936, by the traditional reckoning) is the most famous of the Byzantine "fools" — a Scythian (Slav) slave in Con...

• Andrew, John, Peter and Antoninus

  Andrew, John, and John's sons Peter and Antoninus were Christians of Syracuse in Sicily who suffered martyrdom in North Africa in the later...

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  Andronicus and Athanasia of Antioch

  Andronicus and Athanasia were a married couple of fifth-century Antioch — he a craftsman in silver, she his wife — who lost their two childr...

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  Andronicus and Junia

  Andronicus and Junia are the two Christians of the first generation whom the Apostle Paul greets at Romans 16:7 as "my kinsmen and my fellow...

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  Andronicus of Moscow

  Andronicus (†1404) was a native of Rostov, a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh, and the first abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour on the Yau...

• Angelina of Serbia

  Angelina was an Albanian nobleman's daughter who married the blinded and dispossessed despot Stephen Branković of Serbia, followed him throu...

• Angelis of Argos

  Angelis (Aggelis) was a devout Greek physician of Argos in the Peloponnese who longed for martyrdom in the last generation of the Ottoman yo...

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  Anicetus and Photius

  Anicetus and his nephew Photius were martyred at Nicomedia about the year 305, in the last and fiercest of the imperial persecutions, under...

• Aninas of the Euphrates

  Aninas the Wonderworker (fifth century) was a hermit of the Syrian frontier, venerated for a life of extreme asceticism and an abundance of...

• Anna and John of Constantinople

  Anna and her son John were ninth-century ascetics of Constantinople and Bithynia. Anna was the daughter of a deacon of the church of the Bla...

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  Anna of Kashin

  Anna of Kashin (c. 1280–1368) was Grand Princess of Tver in the worst years that principality ever knew, and the only saint in the history o...

• Anna of Leukadion

  Anna, called also Susanna, was a noblewoman of Constantinople born in 840, in the last years of the iconoclast emperor Theophilus. Orphaned...

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  Anna of Novgorod

  Anna of Novgorod (c. 1001 – 1050) was a Swedish princess who became Grand Princess of Kiev and is venerated as one of the first canonised wo...

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  Anna the Prophetess

  Anna the Prophetess (Ἄννα ἡ Προφῆτις) is the aged widow of the tribe of Asher who, with the righteous Symeon, witnessed to the infant Christ...

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  Anoub the Sign-bearer

  Anoub, called σημειοφόρος, "the sign-bearer" — the Greek epithet for one through whom God works signs — is one of the desert fathers of Egyp...

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  Anterus of Rome

  Anterus was bishop of Rome for about forty days, from November 235 to January 236 — one of the shortest reigns in the history of that see, a...

• Anthimus of Chios

  Anthimus of Chios (1869–1960), born Argyrios Vagianos, was a Greek priest-monk, healer and spiritual father of the island of Chios, one of t...

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  Anthimus of Nicomedia

  Anthimus was bishop of Nicomedia, Diocletian's eastern capital, when the Great Persecution broke upon the Church there at the opening of the...

• Anthony of Dymsk

  Anthony of Dymsk (c. 1157–1224) was a monastic founder of the Novgorod land, a disciple of Barlaam of Khutyn who, shunning the abbacy his dy...

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  Anthony of Optina

  Anthony (in the world Alexander Ivanovich Putilov) was born at Romanov on the Volga in 1795, the younger brother of Moses of Optina, and fol...

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  Anthony of Siya

  Anthony of Siya (c. 1477–1556) was a monastic founder of the Russian far north, the abbot who established the monastery of the Holy Trinity...

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  Anthony the Great

  Anthony the Great (c. 251 – 356) is honoured by the whole Church as the father of monasticism and the archetype of the Christian ascetic. A...

• Anthony the New of Berroia

  Anthony the New (11th century) is honoured by the Church as a wonderworking solitary of Berroia (modern Veria) in Macedonia, the ascetic who...

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  Anthony the Roman of Novgorod

  Anthony (c. 1067 – 3 August 1147) is the saint who came to Novgorod on a stone. The Life has him born at Rome of Orthodox parents, orphaned...

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  Anthony, John and Eustathius of Vilnius

  Anthony, John and Eustathius — the Three Martyrs of Vilnius — were Lithuanian courtiers, brothers or kinsmen, converted to Christ from pagan...

• Anthusa of Mantinea

  Anthusa the Confessor (†759) was abbess of the convent of Mantineon in Paphlagonia and, with the ninety nuns of her community, one of the wo...

• Anthusa of Seleucia

  Anthusa was the daughter of rich pagans at Seleucia, who in the third century heard of the Christian faith, left her father's house on a pre...

• Anthusa the Younger

  Anthusa "the Younger" or "the New" is a martyr of whom the calendars preserve one fact: she was drowned in a well for the faith of Christ, h...

• Antiochus the Physician of Sebaste

  Antiochus was a physician of Sebaste in Cappadocia and, by the tradition of the synaxaria, the brother of the Martyr Plato of Ancyra, from w...

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  Antipas of Pergamum

  Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum, is the "faithful martyr" (ὁ μάρτυς μου ὁ πιστός) whom the risen Christ names by his own mouth in the Revelation...

• Antipater of Bostra

  Antipater was Bishop — properly Metropolitan — of Bostra, the capital of the Roman province of Arabia and one of the great metropolitan sees...