Saints

• Antonina of Nicaea

  Antonina of Nicaea (†c. 302) was a Christian woman of Nicaea in Bithynia who suffered martyrdom in the persecutions of the late third and ea...

• Antoninus of Alexandria

  Antoninus — called Anthony in the Slavic and American calendars — was a Christian of Alexandria who preached Christ openly in the city and w...

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  Antony II Kauleas

  Antony Kauleas (c. 829 – 901), called "the Younger" to distinguish him from an earlier patriarch of the name, was Patriarch of Constantinopl...

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  Antony of the Kiev Caves

  Antony of the Kiev Caves (983–1073) is the father of monasticism in the land of Rus'. Born at Liubech near Chernigov and baptised Antipas, h...

• Anubius the Confessor

  Anubius — Anoub, in the Egyptian form of his name — was a confessor of the fourth-century persecutions who, having endured tortures for Chri...

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  Anysia of Thessalonica

  Anysia (†c. 304) was a young Christian of Thessalonica, the daughter of pious and wealthy parents, who on their death gave away her inherita...

• Apelles, Lucius and Clement of the Seventy

  Apelles, Lucius and Clement (1st century) are three of the Seventy Apostles, commemorated together on September 10. All three are greeted by...

• Aphraates the Persian

  Aphraates (†c. 370–380) was a Persian of noble birth who forsook the fire-worship of his fathers for Christ, left his own country, and becam...

• Aphrodisius and Companions of Scythopolis

  A company of martyrs of Scythopolis in Palestine, headed by Aphrodisius and including Misdas, Macrobius, Valerian, Leontius and Antoninus, w...

• Aphrodisius of Cilicia

  Aphrodisius is a martyr of Cilicia — of Tarsus, where the tradition that names a city at all places him — commemorated by the Greek books on...

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  Apollinaria

  Apollinaria (fifth century, †c. 470) is one of the women of the Egyptian desert who lived out their monastic life disguised as men. Daughter...

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  Apollinaris of Ravenna

  Apollinaris is the first bishop and the protomartyr of Ravenna, the Adriatic city that became the capital of the Western empire and then the...

• Apollo of the Thebaid

  Apollo — Apollonius in the fuller form of the name — was one of the great abbots of fourth-century Egypt, the father of a community of some...

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  Apollonia of Alexandria

  Apollonia (†249) was an aged and revered virgin of Alexandria, martyred in the anti-Christian riot that swept the city in the last year of t...

• Apollonius of Rome

  Apollonius, called the Apologist, was a Roman of senatorial rank who was denounced as a Christian under Commodus, about the year 185, and wh...

• Apollonius of Sardis

  Apollonius was a Christian of Sardis in Lydia, the ancient capital of the Lydian kings and one of the seven churches of the Apocalypse, who...

• Apollos the Bishop

  Apollos — the name appears also as Apollo — is a bishop-saint commemorated in the Greek synaxaria on June 10, of whom nothing whatever is tr...

• Aquila and Hilarius

  Aquila and Hilarius are two martyrs of whom the Greek synaxarion of July 14 preserves nothing beyond their names, the fact that they suffere...

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  Aquila and Priscilla

  Aquila and Priscilla were a married couple of the apostolic age, Jewish Christians and tentmakers by trade, who became among the closest and...

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  Aquilina of Byblos

  Aquilina of Byblos (c. 281–293) is the girl-martyr of Phoenicia: a Christian child of Byblos, the ancient coastal city that is the modern Jb...

• Aquilina of Zagliveri

  Aquilina of Zagliveri (c. 1746–1764) is one of the virgin new-martyrs of the Ottoman period: a girl of the village of Zagliveri near Thessal...

• Arcadius of Cyprus

  Arcadius (†c. 361) was a monastic ascetic of the island of Cyprus in the age of Constantine the Great and Constantius, remembered above all...

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  Arcadius of Novotorzhok

  Arcadius (†13 December 1077) was a young man of Vyazma who left his home to follow the Hungarian nobleman Ephraim, founder of the monastery...

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  Archelais, Thecla and Susanna

  Archelais, Thecla and Susanna were three consecrated virgins of a small monastery near Rome who, when the persecution of Diocletian (284–305...

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  Archil II of Georgia

  Archil (†744) was a king of the Chosroid house, a descendant of Mirian's line, who ruled in Kartli and Kakheti during the catastrophic Arab...

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  Archippus of Colossae

  Archippus was an apostle of the Seventy and a minister of the church of Colossae in Phrygia, greeted by the Apostle Paul as "our fellow sold...

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  Archippus of Herapolis

  Archippus of Herapolis (Hierapolis in Phrygia) was the sacristan of the church of the Archangel Michael at the healing spring near Colossae,...

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  Arethas and the Martyrs of Najran

  Arethas (al-Harith) and the martyrs of Najran suffered around the year 523 in the Christian city of Najran in Himyar (South Arabia), when th...

• Argyra of Prussa

  Argyra was a young married woman of Prussa (Bursa) in Bithynia who, having refused the advances of a Turkish official's son and refused with...

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  Ariadne of Phrygia

  Ariadne (2nd century) was a Christian slave in the household of Tertullus, a leading citizen of a Phrygian city the sources call Promissia —...

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  Aristarchus of the Seventy

  Aristarchus of the Seventy was a Macedonian of Thessalonica and one of the most constant companions of the apostle Paul: seized by the Ephes...

• Aristion of Alexandria in Cilicia

  Aristion (second century) was bishop of Alexandria in Cilicia — the "lesser Alexandria" by the gulf of Issus, not the Egyptian metropolis —...

• Aristobulus of Britain

  Aristobulus (1st century) was one of the Seventy Apostles and, by the tradition of the East, the brother — or kinsman — of the Apostle Barna...

• Aristocles, Demetrian and Athanasius

  Three clerics of the Church of Cyprus — a presbyter, a deacon and a reader — put to death at Salamis about the year 306, in the last and wor...

• Arkadios of Arsinoe

  Arkadios was bishop of Arsinoe on the south-western coast of Cyprus — the ancient city near modern Polis Chrysochous — and is remembered in...

• Arsacius

  Arsacius (Arsakios) is a holy martyr commemorated on November 12, of whom the tradition preserves almost nothing beyond his name and the man...

• Arsenios of Paros

  Arsenios of Paros (1800–1877) was one of the great spiritual fathers and wonderworkers of nineteenth-century Greece. Born at Ioannina in Epi...

• Arsenius of Corfu

  Arsenius (c. 876 – c. 953) was the first Archbishop of Corfu (Kerkyra) and one of the patron saints of the island. Of Palestinian birth and...

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  Arsenius of Komel

  Arsenius was a Moscow nobleman of the Sakharusov family who became a monk of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, worked there as a copyist of books —...

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  Arsenius of Konevits

  Arsenius of Konevits was a coppersmith of Novgorod who became a monk, spent three years on Mount Athos making copper vessels for the brethre...

• Arsenius of Ninotsminda

  Arsenius was a Georgian bishop who resigned his see to become a monk, and one of the greatest scholars of the golden age of Georgian letters...

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  Arsenius of Tver

  Arsenius (†1409) was Bishop of Tver and the founder of the Zheltikov Monastery of the Dormition on the river Tmaka near that city. Born at T...

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  Arsenius the Great

  Arsenius the Great (c. 354 – c. 449/450) was a Roman of senatorial rank, a deacon of the Church of Rome and tutor to the sons of the emperor...

• Arsenius the Lover-of-Labour of the Kiev Caves

  Arsenius the Lover-of-Labour (fourteenth century) was a monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra whose whole memory is contained in his surname: he was...

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  Artemius of Antioch

  Artemius of Antioch (†362) was a high-ranking commander and imperial official under Constantine the Great and Constantius II, who rose to be...

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  Artemius of Verkola

  Artemius of Verkola was a peasant boy of twelve from the village of Verkola on the Pinega, in the far north of Russia, who was killed by lig...

• Artemon of Seleucia

  Artemon was the first bishop of Seleucia in Pisidia, ordained (the tradition holds) by the Apostle Paul during his journeys through Asia Min...

• Asclas of Egypt

  Asclas (†c. 287) was a Christian of Great Hermopolis in Middle Egypt who suffered in the persecution of Diocletian under the governor Arrian...

• Asclepius and James of Syria

  Asclepius and James (fifth century) were two ascetics of the Syrian countryside, of the region around Cyrrhus, remembered together on Februa...

• Asterius the Senator

  Asterius — Astyrius in the Greek of Eusebius — was a Roman senator, wealthy, of the highest standing, and a Christian, living under Valerian...