Saints

• Triandaphyllus of Zagora

  Triandaphyllus — "Rose," as the name means in Greek — was a boy of fifteen, a sailor's apprentice from Zagora, who was beheaded at Constanti...

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  Triphyllius of Leucosia

  Triphyllius (†c. 370) was Bishop of Leucosia — ancient Ledra, the modern Nicosia — in Cyprus, and the best-known disciple of Spyridon of Tri...

• Troadius of Neocaesarea

  Troadius (†c. 250) was a young martyr of Neocaesarea in Pontus who suffered under the emperor Decius, enduring fearful tortures for the conf...

• Trophimus and Eucarpion

  Trophimus and Eucarpion (died c. 300) were soldiers of Nicomedia in the reign of the emperor Diocletian, commissioned to hunt down and arres...

• Trophimus and Thalus

  Trophimus and Thalus (Thallus) were two brothers, martyrs of Laodicea, who suffered for Christ in the persecution of Diocletian about the ye...

• Trophimus and Theophilus of Lycia

  Trophimus, Theophilus and thirteen who suffered with them are a company of martyrs of the Great Persecution under Diocletian, put to death i...

• Trophimus of the Seventy

  Trophimus was a disciple and travelling-companion of the Apostle Paul, named several times in the New Testament, and is numbered by the Chur...

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  Trophimus, Sabbatius and Dorymedon

  Trophimus, Sabbatius and Dorymedon (†c. 276) are the chief martyrs of September 19, sufferers under the emperor Probus. Trophimus and Sabbat...

• Tryphaena of Cyzicus

  Tryphaena of Cyzicus was a Christian martyr of Cyzicus on the Hellespont, a noblewoman who, moved by zeal to strengthen the wavering faithfu...

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  Tryphon of Campsada

  Tryphon of Campsada (c. 232 – c. 250) is among the most beloved of the popular saints of the Orthodox world — a Phrygian peasant boy, keeper...

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  Tsotne Dadiani

  Tsotne Dadiani was eristavi — duke — of Egrisi, the western Georgian principality of Odishi (Samegrelo, Mingrelia), in the middle of the thi...

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  Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles

  On June 30, the day after the great feast of the Chief Apostles, the Church keeps the Synaxis of the Holy, Glorious and All-praised Twelve A...

• Twelve Greeks of the Kiev Caves

  The Twelve Greeks are the company of Byzantine master-builders who, according to the Kiev Caves Patericon, were sent from Constantinople to...

• Twelve Roman Martyrs

  Twelve martyrs of Rome, commemorated on July 31 in the Greek synaxarion by a single line — Οἱ ἅγιοι δώδεκα μάρτυρες οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι ξίφει τελειοῦ...

• Twelve Soldier-Martyrs of Crete

  A company of twelve soldiers martyred in Crete, commemorated on August 12 in the Greek synaxaria, of whom nothing survives but the number, t...

• The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Gotthia

  The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Gotthia were Christians among the Goths beyond the Danube — priests, a monk, and lay men and women — put to death...

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  Twenty-six Martyrs of Zographou

  The Twenty-six Martyrs of Zographou — twenty-two monks of the Bulgarian monastery of Zographou on Mount Athos, led by their abbot Thomas, to...

• Two Children Martyred for Christ

  Among the commemorations of June 28 the Greek synaxarion names two children who were put to death for Christ, the tradition specifying that...

• Two Martyrs of Cyprus

  Two Christians of Cyprus, whose names have not been transmitted, are commemorated on June 18. All that the synaxarion records of them is the...

• Ultan of Ardbraccan

  Ultán moccu Conchobair (†657, the annals varying) was bishop of Ardbraccan (Ard Breccáin) in Meath, and is one of the best-attested Irish sa...

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  Urban of Rome

  Urban was bishop of Rome from 222 to 230, in the reign of Alexander Severus — one of the calmest stretches the third-century Church was give...

• Urban, Theodore, Medimnus and their Companions

  Urban, Theodore and Medimnus, with seventy-seven companions, were a delegation of eighty clergy of Constantinople who suffered around the ye...

• Urpasian

  Urpasian (†c. 300) was a dignitary of the imperial court at Nicomedia who, in the persecution under the emperor Maximian, renounced his worl...

• Ursicius the Tribune

  Ursicius was a tribune — a commander of a cohort — in the Roman army in the reign of Maximian (286–305), a native of the town the Greek syna...

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  Valentine of Interamna

  Valentine was bishop of Interamna Nahars — the modern Terni in Umbria, some sixty miles north of Rome — in the third century, and was renown...

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  Varus of Egypt

  Varus (in Slavic usage Uar) was a soldier in Egypt at the opening of the fourth century, a secret Christian who ministered by night to confe...

• Venantius of Gaul

  Venantius was a young nobleman of Gaul, the elder brother of Honoratus, the founder of the great island monastery of Lérins, who with his br...

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  Vendemianus of Bithynia

  Vendemianus (Bendimianos) of Bithynia was an ascetic of the late fifth and early sixth centuries, a disciple of the great ascetic Auxentius...

• Veronica of Paneas

  Veronica — Berenice in the Greek, and in the Gospels simply "a woman having an issue of blood twelve years" — is the woman who came up behin...

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  Victor and Stephanida

  Victor and Stephanida were martyrs of the second century, put to death at Damascus in the reign of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (161–180). Vi...

• Victor of Marseilles

  Victor was a Christian soldier of the Roman garrison at Massilia — Marseilles — put to death there about the year 290 for going among the im...

• Victoria, Anatolia and Audax

  Victoria and Anatolia were sisters, Christian maidens of noble family in the Sabine country north-east of Rome, who refused the pagan husban...

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  Victorinus and his Companions

  Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion and Papias were seven Christians who suffered together at Corinth about the yea...

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  Vincent of Lérins

  Vincent of Lérins (†c. 445) was a Gallic monk and priest of the island monastery of Lérins off the coast of Provence, and the author of the...

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  Vincent of Saragossa

  Vincent of Saragossa (died 304) was a deacon of the Spanish church and the protomartyr of the Iberian peninsula, put to death at Valencia in...

• The Virgin-Martyrs of Amisus

  On March 20 the Church commemorates a company of Christian women martyred at Amisus in Pontus (the Black Sea city, modern Samsun) in the las...

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  Vitalis of Gaza

  Vitalis (†c. 620) was a monk of the great coenobium of Abba Seridos near Gaza who, at the age of sixty, went to Alexandria and there underto...

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  Vitalis of Ravenna

  Vitalis is the martyr in whose honour the emperor Justinian's mosaic masterpiece, the Basilica of San Vitale at Ravenna, was raised over the...

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  Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia

  Vitus was a boy of a great pagan house of Sicily or Lucania who was brought to Christ in secret by the two servants who had charge of him —...

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  Vladimir Yaroslavich of Novgorod

  Vladimir Yaroslavich (1020–1052), eldest surviving son of Yaroslav the Wise and the Swedish princess Ingegerd (Anna of Novgorod), was prince...

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  Vladimir of Kiev

  Vladimir Svyatoslavich (c. 958–1015), Great Prince of Kiev, is honoured as Equal-to-the-Apostles because through him an entire people entere...

• Vsevolod-Gabriel of Pskov

  Vsevolod-Gabriel (†1138) was a prince of the house of Kiev — son of Mstislav the Great and grandson of Vladimir Monomakh — who ruled Novgoro...

• Vukasin of Klepci

  Vukašin was a Serbian peasant of Klepci, a village in Herzegovina above the Neretva, whose household was destroyed in the massacres of 1941...

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  Wenceslaus of Bohemia

  Wenceslaus (Václav, in the Russian books Viacheslav; c. 907–935) was the prince of the Czechs, grandson and pupil of the martyr Ludmila of B...

• Wilfrida of Wilton

  Wilfrida — Wulfthryth in her own tongue — was a tenth-century English noblewoman, educated at the nunnery of Wilton in Wiltshire, whom King...

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  William of Gellone

  William (c. 755–812) was a Frankish count and duke of Toulouse, a kinsman of Charlemagne and one of the commanders who held the Pyrenean fro...

• Wulfhild of Barking

  Wulfhild (†c. 1000) was a tenth-century English abbess of noble birth, educated at the nunnery of Wilton, who as a young woman refused the a...

• Xanthippe and Polyxena

  Xanthippe and Polyxena were sisters of Spain in the first age of the Church, remembered as disciples of the apostles. The tradition relates...

• Xenia of Petersburg

  Xenia of Petersburg (c. 1719/1730 – c. 1803) is among the most beloved of all Russian saints — the widow of the court chorister Andrei Feodo...

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  Xenia of Rome

  Xenia of Rome (†c. 450), called in the world Eusebia, was the only daughter of an eminent Roman senator who, to escape a marriage her parent...