Saints

• Astius of Dyrrachium

  Astius was bishop of Dyrrachium — the great Adriatic port at the western end of the Via Egnatia, the modern Durrës in Albania — in the reign...

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  Athanasia and her Daughters

  Athanasia and her three daughters — Theoctiste, Theodota and Eudoxia — were a Christian mother and her children martyred at Canopus near Ale...

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  Athanasius I of Constantinople

  Athanasius I, Patriarch of Constantinople, was a rigorous ascetic and reforming hierarch of the early Palaiologan age, twice occupying the p...

• Athanasius Parios

  Athanasius the Parian (c. 1721–1813) was the second leader of the Kollyvades movement, the great schoolmaster of Chios, and the most combati...

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  Athanasius Patelarios

  Athanasius III Patelarios, a Cretan of the noble Greek house of Patelarios, was three times Patriarch of Constantinople in the harried decad...

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  Athanasius of Athos

  Athanasius the Athonite (c. 920 – c. 1000) is the father of organised monastic life on Mount Athos. Born Abraham at Trebizond and educated a...

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  Athanasius of Brest

  Athanasius Filippovich, abbot of the monastery of St Symeon at Brest, was the most uncompromising Orthodox voice in the Polish–Lithuanian Co...

• Athanasius of Corinth

  Athanasius, Bishop of Corinth, is a hierarch of the middle Byzantine period commemorated on May 4, of whom the synaxarion records only that...

• Athanasius of Modon

  Athanasius of Modon (9th century, †c. 885) was a hierarch of the Byzantine Peloponnese, remembered as a bishop of holy life and a worker of...

• Athanasius of Murom

  Athanasius (fifteenth century) was an abbot of the Murom (Muromsky) Monastery on Lake Onega — the house founded in the previous century by t...

• Athanasius of Tarsus

  Athanasius was bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia — the city of the Apostle Paul, and a metropolitan see of the Patriarchate of Antioch — in the mi...

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  Athanasius the Confessor of Paulopetrion

  Athanasius the Confessor (died 821) was a monk and abbot of the Paulopetrion monastery — the house "of Paul and Peter," near Nicomedia in Bi...

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  Athanasius the Great

  Athanasius the Great (c. 296 – 373) was Archbishop of Alexandria, the champion of the Nicene faith and, with Basil the Great, one of only tw...

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  Athanasius the Resurrected

  Athanasius, called "the Resurrected One," was a monk of the Near (Antonian) Caves of Kiev in the twelfth century. After a long and grievous...

• Athanasius the Wonderworker

  Athanasius the Wonderworker is a monastic saint of the Greek synaxaria, commemorated on June 3 and known from a single short synaxarion noti...

• Athenagoras of Athens

  Athenagoras was a philosopher of Athens of the second century who, having studied the Platonism of his city, came to the faith and wrote in...

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  Athenodorus of Mesopotamia

  Athenodorus was a martyr of Syrian Mesopotamia who suffered in the last great persecution of Diocletian, about the year 304. Having embraced...

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  Athenogenes of Pedachthoe

  Athenogenes was a bishop — in the older and more precise notices a chorepiskopos, a country-bishop — of Pedachthoe, a small place in Armenia...

• Attalus the Wonderworker

  Attalus is a wonderworking ascetic commemorated by the Greek synaxaria on June 6, known only from the synaxarion notice for that day. It des...

• Atticus and Sisinnius

  Atticus and Sisinnius are two martyrs of whom the Greek synaxarion preserves nothing but the names, the day, and the manner of death: they w...

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  Augustine of Canterbury

  Augustine (†26 May 604 or 605) was the Roman monk whom Gregory the Dialogist sent from the monastery of St Andrew on the Caelian Hill to pre...

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  Augustine of Hippo

  Augustine (354–430), Bishop of Hippo Regius in Roman North Africa, is the most consequential writer of the Latin Church: a provincial rhetor...

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  Autonomus of Italy

  Autonomus (†c. 313) was a bishop in Italy who, when the great persecution broke out under Diocletian, crossed to Bithynia and made the villa...

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  Auxentius of Bithynia

  Auxentius (late fourth century – c. 470) was a Syrian-born ascetic who rose from the imperial guard of Constantinople to become one of the m...

• Auxentius the New Martyr

  Auxentius the New Martyr (1690–1720) was a Greek craftsman and sailor of Constantinople who confessed Christ before the Ottoman authorities...

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  Auxibius of Soli

  Auxibius (first century) was an apostolic-age bishop of Soli (Soloi), a city on the northern coast of Cyprus. Born at Rome of a distinguishe...

• Azariah the Prophet

  Azariah, son of Oded, is the Old-Testament prophet who, "the Spirit of God coming upon him," went out to meet King Asa of Judah as he return...

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  Babylas of Antioch

  Babylas was bishop of Antioch from about 237 until his death in the Decian persecution, c. 253. Celebrated in antiquity for barring an emper...

• Babylas of Sicily, Timothy and Agapius

  Babylas of Sicily, with his two disciples Timothy and Agapius, were third-century martyrs. According to the synaxarion, Babylas — born to a...

• Bademus of Persia

  Bademus (Vadim) was a wealthy nobleman of the city of Beth-Lapat in Persia who gave away his riches, founded a monastery, and lived as its a...

• Balin

  Balin (Balloin, Balanus; 7th century) was an Englishman who became a monk in Ireland: a brother of St Gerald of Mayo, and one of four brothe...

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  Barbara

  Barbara the Great-martyr (†c. 306) is one of the most beloved of the virgin-martyrs of the early Church, honoured throughout East and West....

• Barbara of Alapaevsk

  Barbara Yakovleva was a nun of the Convent of Saints Martha and Mary in Moscow and the cell-attendant of its foundress, the Grand Duchess El...

• Barbarus the Myrrh-streamer

  Barbarus was a brigand of Thessaly who for years lived by robbery, extortion and murder, and who, sitting in his cave among his plunder, was...

• Barbarus, Bacchus, Callimachus and Dionysius

  Barbarus was a soldier of the Roman army under Julian the Apostate who, having won honour for the emperor by killing a barbarian champion in...

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  Barlaam and Josaphat of India

  Barlaam and Josaphat are the two ascetic saints of one of the most widely translated and beloved stories of the medieval world: the hermit B...

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  Barlaam of Antioch

  Barlaam was an aged and unlettered Christian farmer martyred in the persecution of Diocletian, around the year 304. Arrested and unable to b...

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  Barlaam of Khutyn

  Barlaam of Khutyn (died 1192) was the founder of the Monastery of the Transfiguration at Khutyn on the river Volkhov and one of the most bel...

• Barlaam of Moldavia

  Barlaam (Varlaam) was Metropolitan of Moldavia from 1632 to 1653, in the reign of Prince Vasile Lupu, and is the father of printed Romanian...

• Barlaam of Shenkursk

  Barlaam — Vasily Stepanovich Svoezemtsev in the world — was a Novgorod boyar and posadnik of the city who owned great estates on the norther...

• Barnabas and Sophronius of Mela

  Barnabas and his nephew Sophronius were Athenians who left Greece for the mountains of Pontus and settled on Mount Mela (the Black Mountain,...

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  Barnabas of Vetluga

  Barnabas of Vetluga (†1445) was a priest of Great Ustiug who left the world for the uninhabited forest country of the middle Vetluga, a trib...

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  Barnabas the Apostle

  Barnabas — born Joseph, a Levite of Cyprus, whom the apostles surnamed Barnabas, "son of consolation" — is the one apostle of the Seventy wh...

• Barrog of Barry

  Barrog (Barruc, Welsh Barrwg) was a sixth-century Welsh monk, a disciple of St Cadoc of Llancarfan, remembered as the hermit of Barry Island...

• Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet

  Barsanuphius the Great (†after 543) and John the Prophet (†mid-6th century) were two hesychast elders of the monastery of Abba Seridus at Th...

• Barses, Eulogius and Protogenes

  Three bishops of the Syrian Mesopotamian frontier, kept together on one day because they suffered together in one persecution: the Arian rep...

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  Bartholomew the Apostle

  Bartholomew is one of the Twelve, named in every apostolic list of the New Testament and in every one of them beside Philip, and yet given n...

• Baruch the Prophet

  Baruch son of Neriah (7th–6th century BC) was the scribe, disciple and faithful companion of the Prophet Jeremiah, who wrote at his dictatio...

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  Barypsabas of Dalmatia

  Barypsabas (dated by the received account to the 2nd century) was a hermit venerated as the guardian of a most unusual relic: a gourd-vessel...

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  Basil and Constantine of Yaroslavl

  Two brothers, Basil (died 1249) and Constantine (died 1257), successively princes of Yaroslavl on the Volga, orphaned as boys when their fat...