Saints

• Symeon the Ancient

  Symeon "the Ancient" (died c. 390) was one of the earliest and most venerable of the ascetics of the Syrian mountains, whose life the histor...

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  Symeon the Fool-for-Christ of Emesa

  Symeon of Emesa — the Syrian city of Homs, in the patriarchal territory of Antioch — is the archetype of the whole Eastern vocation of folly...

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  Symeon the God-receiver

  Symeon the God-receiver (Θεοδόχος, "he who received God") is the righteous and aged elder of Jerusalem who, "just and devout, waiting for th...

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  Symeon the New Theologian

  Symeon the New Theologian (949–1022) is the great mystical theologian of Byzantium: monk of Stoudios, abbot of St. Mamas in Constantinople,...

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  Symeon the Stylite

  Symeon the Stylite (c. 390–459) was a Syrian ascetic who became the most famous holy man of the fifth-century Christian world by spending ne...

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  Symeon the Stylite of the Wonderful Mountain

  Symeon of the Wonderful Mountain (521–596), called the Younger to distinguish him from his great namesake, is the supreme ascetic of the Ant...

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  Syncletica of Alexandria

  Syncletica of Alexandria (c. 270 – c. 350) is the greatest of the Desert Mothers — the "Ammas" of the Egyptian ascetic golden age whose sayi...

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  Synetus of Rome

  Synetus of Rome (died c. 270–275) was a reader of the Roman Church in the third century who was tortured and beheaded for his confession of...

• Syra of Persia

  Syra was the daughter of a Zoroastrian priest of Karkh-Seleucia in Persia, brought up in the fire-religion and trained for its service, who...

• The Syrian Desert Ascetics

  On February 23 the Church commemorates a group of ascetics of the Syrian desert of the fifth century — John, Antiochus, Antoninus, Moses, Ze...

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  Tabitha

  Tabitha — called in Greek Dorcas, both names meaning "gazelle" — was a woman disciple of the earliest Church at Joppa on the coast of Judea,...

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  Taisia of Egypt

  Taisia of Egypt — Thaïs, in the Greek and Latin of her Life — was a celebrated courtesan of fourth-century Egypt, famed for a beauty that, t...

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  Tamara of Georgia

  Tamara (c. 1166–1213) is the queen under whom Georgia reached the height of its power and holiness, and whom her own people call not queen b...

• Tancred, Torthred and Tova

  Tancred and Torthred, hermits, and Tova, an anchoress, were solitaries of Thorney in the fenland of eastern England, put to death by the Dan...

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  Tarasius of Constantinople

  Tarasius (c. 730 – 806) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 784 to his death — a layman and imperial secretary raised in a single week thro...

• Tarcisius of Rome

  Tarcisius was a boy of the Roman church in the persecution under Valerian and Gallienus, about the year 257, who was entrusted with carrying...

• Tathuil and Bebaia

  Tathuil (Thathuil, in some sources Thiphael) and his sister Bebaia were martyrs of the second century, remembered for bold and fruitful prea...

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  Tatiana of Rome

  Tatiana of Rome (died c. 226) was a noble Roman virgin and deaconess martyred under the emperor Alexander Severus. Daughter of a man who had...

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  Tation of Claudiopolis

  Tation was a Christian of Bithynia put to death in the persecution of Diocletian, at Claudiopolis — the city of the interior which the Greek...

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  Telemachus

  Telemachus (also Almachius; †c. 404) was an ascetic monk from the East who, according to the historian Theodoret of Cyrrhus, came to Rome an...

• Ten Ascetics of Egypt

  The Greek synaxarion for August 8 commemorates ten unnamed ascetics of Egypt, recording of them only that they were ten, that they were Egyp...

• Ten Martyrs of Constantinople

  Ten Christians of Constantinople — Julian, Marcian, John, James, Alexius, Demetrius, Photius, Peter, Leontius, and Maria the Patrician — wer...

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  Ten Martyrs of Crete

  The Ten Martyrs of Crete — Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zoticus, Pompeius, Agathopus, Basilides and Evaristus — were...

• Ten Thousand Fathers of Nitria

  Under the name of the Myriad — the ten thousand — the Church keeps on July 10 the memory of the monks of the Egyptian desert of Nitria and o...

• Ten Thousand Martyrs

  The Ten Thousand Martyrs are a company of holy martyrs commemorated on March 18, of whom the Greek synaxarion records only that they were be...

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  Terence and Neonilla and Their Children

  Terence and Neonilla were a married couple of Syria who, with their seven children, confessed Christ and were put to death together in the p...

• Terence of Iconium

  Terence, bishop of Iconium in Lycaonia, is commemorated on June 21 as a hieromartyr of the first century — one of the earliest successors of...

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  Tertius, Mark, Justus and Artemas of the Seventy

  Tertius, Mark, Justus and Artemas were four apostles of the Seventy whom the Byzantine calendar commemorates together on October 30. Tertius...

• Tetta of Wimborne

  Tetta (8th century, †c. 772 in the digest tradition) was abbess of the double monastery of Wimborne in Dorset, a royal foundation of the Wes...

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  Thaddaeus of the Seventy

  Thaddaeus — Addai in his own Aramaic — was a Jew of Edessa who came up to Jerusalem, was baptised by John the Forerunner in the Jordan, foll...

• Thaddeus the Confessor

  Thaddeus (†818) was a monk of the great Monastery of Stoudios in Constantinople and a disciple of Theodore the Studite, who suffered as a co...

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  Thais of Alexandria

  Thais — Taisia in the Slavonic books — was a well-born Egyptian girl left an orphan with a fortune, who spent the whole of it turning her ho...

• Thalassius, Limnaeus and Baradates

  Thalassius, Limnaeus and Baradates were three Syrian solitaries of the fifth century, ascetics of the hill-country around Cyrrhus and Antioc...

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  Thalelaeus of Syria

  Thalelaeus the Hermit (†c. 460) was a Syrian solitary of the region near Gabala (Jableh) on the coast of Syria, remembered by his contempora...

• Thalelaeus the Unmercenary

  Thalelaeus (†284) was a young physician of Cilicia who treated the sick without payment and was martyred at the age of about eighteen in the...

• Theagenes of Parium

  Theagenes (Theogenes) of Parium (†c. 320) was a martyr of Parium, a port on the Hellespont in the region of the Troad, put to death by drown...

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  Thecla of Iconium

  Thecla of Iconium (1st century) is honoured by the Orthodox Church as protomartyr among women and equal-to-the-apostles: a noble virgin of I...

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  Themistocles of Myra

  Themistocles (†251) was a shepherd of Myra in Lycia who gave his life to save another. During the persecution of the emperor Decius he shelt...

• Theocharis of Neapolis

  Theocharis was an orphan boy of Cappadocia taken into the household of the Turkish judge of Neapolis — the town the Ottomans called Nevşehir...

• Theoclete the Wonderworker

  Theoclete lived in the ninth century, in the reign of the iconoclast emperor Theophilos (829–842), in the theme of the Optimatoi on the Asia...

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  Theoctista of Lesbos

  Theoctista of Lesbos (9th century) was a nun of the island of Lesbos who, seized in a Saracen pirate raid, escaped on the deserted island of...

• Theoctistus of Chernigov

  Theoctistus was a monk of the Kiev Caves, its igumen from 1103, and from 1113 the bishop of Chernigov — a career that spans the two decades...

• Theoctistus of Cucumo

  Theoctistus (†c. 800) was the founder and first abbot of a monastery at Cucumo in Sicily — the modern Caccamo, near Palermo — in the age of...

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  Theoctistus of Palestine

  Theoctistus (died 467) was one of the founding fathers of Palestinian desert monasticism, remembered above all as the inseparable companion...

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  Theodora and Didymus of Alexandria

  Theodora, a Christian virgin of Alexandria, and Didymus, a Christian soldier who saved her honour at the cost of his life, were martyred tog...

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  Theodora of Alexandria

  Theodora of Alexandria (died c. 490) is one of the most celebrated penitents of the Orthodox calendar: a married woman of Alexandria who, ha...

• Theodora of Sihla

  Theodora is the great woman hermit of the Romanian mountains: born at Vânători in the county of Neamț in the first half of the seventeenth c...

• Theodora of Thessalonica

  Theodora (812–892) was a married woman of Aegina who came as a refugee to Thessalonica from the Arab raids on the Aegean, was widowed there,...

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  Theodora the Empress

  Theodora (c. 815 – c. 867) was the Byzantine empress who restored the veneration of the holy icons and so ended, once and for all, the long...

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  Theodore Stratelates

  Theodore Stratelates (†319) — "the Commander," from the Greek stratelates, a general — was a Roman military officer of the early fourth cent...