Saints

Xenophon and his wife Mary were a wealthy and devout senatorial couple of Constantinople in the reign of Justin I and Justinian (early sixth...

Xenophon of Robeika (died 1262) was a Russian monastic of the Novgorod tradition, a disciple of the school of Varlaam of Khutyn who, after s...

Zabulon and Sosanna were the parents of Nina, the Equal-to-the-Apostles and Enlightener of Georgia, and are venerated for what they gave up...

Zacchaeus and Alphaeus were among the first martyrs of the Great Persecution in Palestine, put to death at Caesarea in the year 303. Zacchae...

Zachariah the priest and his wife Elizabeth were the parents of John the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord. Luke's Gospel presents them as...

Zachariah (Hebrew Zekharyah, "the Lord has remembered") was the eleventh of the Twelve Minor Prophets and, with Haggai, one of the two proph...

Zachariah was a monk of the Egyptian (or, in some notices, the Palestinian) desert who gave himself to strict enclosure, fasting and unceasi...

Zacharias (sixth century – c. 632) was Patriarch of Jerusalem through the catastrophe of the Persian conquest of the Holy City. Raised to th...

Zenaida (Zenais) and Philonilla (first century) were sisters of Tarsus in Cilicia, kinswomen of the Apostle Paul and among the earliest wome...

Zenais — the name also appears as Zenaida — was born at Caesarea in Palestine in the year 284, and is remembered in the Byzantine books for...

Zenas of the Seventy, called "the lawyer," is known from a single verse of the New Testament: Paul's charge to Titus to "send Zenas the lawy...

Zeno was a man of substance in Philadelphia in Arabia — the old Ammonite capital, the modern Amman — who, when the persecution of Diocletian...

Zeno and Zoilus are two saints named together in the Byzantine synaxaria on March 3, of whom the tradition transmits almost nothing beyond t...

Zeno the Faster (died c. 414) was a hermit of the region of Antioch, remembered as a disciple of Basil the Great and a model of extreme abst...

Zenobius, bishop of Aegae in Cilicia, and his sister Zenobia were a brother and sister of a wealthy Christian family who gave away their inh...

Zephaniah (in the Greek of the Septuagint and the Byzantine service books, "Sophonias") was the ninth of the Twelve Minor Prophets, active i...

Zlata of Meglen (†1795), called Chryse in Greek — both names mean "golden" — is one of the best-loved virgin new-martyrs of the Ottoman peri...

Zoilus (†c. 304) was a Christian presbyter near Aquileia who reverently recovered from the sea the body and severed head of the martyr Chrys...

Zosimas was a Cilician who left the world in his youth for Mount Sinai, withdrew from there to a still more solitary place in Lebanon, and w...

Zosimas of Cilicia (4th century) was a Christian hermit who lived among the wild beasts of the Cilician wilderness, having fled the cities o...

Zosimas (†17 April 1478) is the founder of the great monastery of Solovki in the White Sea and the father of coenobitic monasticism in the R...

Zosimas was a soldier of the Roman army, a native of Apollonia in Thrace, who in the persecution under Trajan laid down his arms, was baptis...

Zoticus (†c. 350) was a Roman of noble birth and Christian piety who came to Constantinople in the reign of Constantine the Great, renounced...