Saints

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  Basil of Amasea

  Basil — in the Greek sources Basileus (Βασιλεύς), "the king," not the commoner Basileios — was bishop of Amasea in Pontus in the first decad...

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  Basil of Ancyra

  Basil of Ancyra (†c. 362) was a martyr of Ancyra in Galatia who suffered under the emperor Julian the Apostate. A zealous confessor of the N...

• Basil of Kamen

  Basil of Kamen was a fool-for-Christ of the Saviour-Kamenny monastery, which stood on a single rock of an island in Lake Kubenskoye north of...

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  Basil of Moscow

  Basil the Blessed (†1557) is the most famous of all the Russian fools-for-Christ: a cobbler's apprentice from the village of Yelokhovo who a...

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  Basil of Ostrog

  Basil of Ostrog (Sveti Vasilije Ostroški, born Stojan Jovanović, c. 1610–1671) was the Serbian hierarch of Zahumlje and Skenderija who sheph...

• Basil of Parium

  Basil, Bishop of Parium on the Hellespont, was a confessor of the eighth century who suffered greatly for the holy icons in the first iconoc...

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  Basil of Ryazan

  Basil was bishop of Murom and then of Ryazan in the second half of the thirteenth century, in the generation after the Mongol conquest, and...

• Basil of Thessalonica

  Basil, Archbishop of Thessalonica, is commemorated among the holy hierarchs on February 1. The Greek synaxarion styles him a confessor — one...

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  Basil the Confessor

  Basil the Confessor (†c. 750) was a monk and fellow-ascetic of Procopius of Decapolis, with whom he shared both the ascetic life and the suf...

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  Basil the Great

  Basil the Great (c. 330 – 379) was Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, one of the three Cappadocian Fathers and — with Gregory the Theolog...

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  Basiliscus of Comana

  Basiliscus (†c. 308) was a young Christian of the Pontic country, nephew of the great-martyr Theodore the Recruit, who confessed Christ at A...

• Basilissa and Anastasia of Rome

  Basilissa and Anastasia were noble Christian women of Rome, disciples of the apostles Peter and Paul, who devoted themselves to gathering an...

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  Basilissa of Nicomedia

  Basilissa was a girl of Nicomedia, nine years old in the received accounts, who confessed Christ before the governor Alexander during the pe...

• Bassa of Edessa and her sons Theognius, Agapius and Pistus

  Bassa was a Christian woman of Edessa in Macedonia — the old royal city of the Macedonian kings, not the Syrian Edessa of the apostle with w...

• Bassian and Jonah of Pertominsk

  Bassian and Jonah were monks of the Solovki Transfiguration monastery on the White Sea and disciples of the Igumen Philip — the future Metro...

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  Bassian of Constantinople

  Bassian of Constantinople (fifth century) was a Syrian-born ascetic who settled in the imperial capital in the days of the emperor Marcian (...

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  Bassian of Lodi

  Bassian was bishop of Lodi (Roman Laus Pompeia) in northern Italy for some thirty-five years at the turn of the fourth and fifth centuries,...

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  Bassus, Eusebius, Eutychius and Basilides

  Bassus, Eusebius, Eutychius and Basilides were four men of high rank at Nicomedia — wealthy members of the Senate, or great officers of the...

• Batas of Nisibis

  Batas was a monk of the Church of Persia in the fourth century who was put to death at Nisibis for confessing Christ, about the year 364, in...

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  Bede the Venerable

  Bede (c. 673–735), monk and presbyter of the twin monastery of Wearmouth–Jarrow in Northumbria, is the greatest scholar of the early English...

• Bega of Copeland

  Bega (Bee) is the patroness of St Bees in Copeland, the coastal district of Cumbria whose headland and village still bear her name. The medi...

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  Benedict of Nursia

  Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – c. 547) is honoured as the father of Western monasticism and one of the great ascetic fathers of the undivided...

• Benjamin of Nitria

  Benjamin (†c. 392) was an ascetic of the Nitrian desert in Egypt, one of the desert fathers whose memory is preserved chiefly through the La...

• Benjamin of Persia

  Benjamin of Persia (†c. 424) was a deacon of the Persian church and a tireless evangelist who converted many Zoroastrian Persians to Christ...

• Benjamin of Petrograd and Those with Him

  Benjamin (Kazansky) was the first bishop in the history of the Russian Church to be elected by the free vote of his own diocese, chosen metr...

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  Bessarion the Great

  Bessarion the Great (died c. 466) was one of the great desert fathers of fifth-century Egypt, a wonderworker of Scetis and disciple, the tra...

• Bettelin of Crowland

  Bettelin (Bertram), an eighth-century hermit of Crowland in the English fenland, was a disciple of St Guthlac and is commonly identified wit...

• Bianor and Silvanus of Pisidia

  Bianor and Silvanus are martyrs of Pisidia, the rough highland province of southern Asia Minor, who suffered in the persecution of Diocletia...

• Blaise of Caesarea

  Blaise the Herdsman (Βλάσιος ὁ Βουκόλος, "the cowherd") was a simple keeper of cattle near Caesarea in Cappadocia who, in the persecutions o...

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  Blaise of Sebaste

  Blaise of Sebaste (Βλάσιος; † c. 316) was bishop of Sebaste in Armenia and one of the most beloved hieromartyrs of both East and West. A phy...

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  Bogolep of Chorny Yar

  Bogolep (1660–1667) was a seven-year-old boy of the Ushakov family, baptised Boris, whose father was sent as governor to Chorny Yar — "Black...

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  Boniface of Mainz

  Boniface (c. 675 – 754), born Wynfrith in the West Saxon country at Crediton in Devon, is the Apostle of the Germans: the English monk who s...

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  Boniface of Tarsus

  Boniface of Tarsus (died c. 290) is remembered for one of the most striking conversion stories in the Church's calendar. A dissolute househo...

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  Boris and Gleb

  Boris and Gleb, sons of Vladimir the Baptizer of Rus' and named Roman and David at the font, were killed in the succession war of 1015 on th...

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  Boris of Bulgaria

  Boris, prince (knyaz) of the Bulgarians from 852 to 889 and called Michael at his baptism about 864, is the Baptizer of Bulgaria: the ruler...

• Botolph of Iken

  The Anglo-Saxon abbot of Icanho, whose monastery the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records him beginning to build in 654 — a fixed point in a centur...

• Brigid of Kildare

  Brigid of Kildare (c. 451 – c. 525) is, with Patrick and Columba, one of the three patron saints of Ireland, and the most beloved of Irish w...

• Bucolus of Smyrna

  Bucolus (Boukolos, †c. 100) was the first bishop of Smyrna in Asia Minor and a disciple of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian. S...

• Caesarius of Arles

  Caesarius, bishop of Arles for forty years (502–542), is the last great figure of Latin Gaul before it becomes Frankish: a monk of Lérins tu...

• Caesarius of Nazianzus

  Caesarius (c. 331 – c. 369) was the younger brother of Gregory the Theologian and, with him and their sister Gorgonia, one of the children o...

• Caian of Anglesey

  Caian is a saint of early Wales known from a single church dedication: the church of Tregaian ("Caian's homestead"), a chapelry under Llange...

• Callinica and Aquilina

  Callinica and Aquilina were two women of Lycia, of ill fame, whom the persecutor sent in to the imprisoned Great-Martyr Christopher to break...

• Callinicus of Constantinople

  Callinicus I was Patriarch of Constantinople from 693 to 705, through the first and most violent reign of Justinian II. A priest of the grea...

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  Callinicus of Gangra

  Callinicus (†c. 250) was a Christian of Cilicia who left his own country to preach Christ through the cities of Asia Minor, and was seized a...

• Calliopius of Pompeiopolis

  Calliopius was a young Christian of Pompeiopolis in Cilicia, of noble birth, who during the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian confessed...

• Callista, Evodus and Hermogenes

  Callista and her brothers Evodus and Hermogenes were three siblings of Nicomedia who confessed Christ together and were beheaded around the...

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  Callistratus and his Forty-nine Companions

  Callistratus (†c. 304) is the chief martyr of September 27: a Roman soldier of Carthaginian and Christian descent whose secret night prayers...

• Callistus of Constantinople

  Callistus I (†August 1363) was an Athonite hesychast who spent some twenty-eight years on the Holy Mountain as a disciple of Gregory of Sina...

• Caluf of Egypt

  Caluf was a Christian of Thebes in Upper Egypt, put to death in the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian about the year 303. Brought befor...

• Cantidius, Cantidian and Sibel

  Three martyrs of Egypt, commemorated together on August 5 and known only from the bare notice of the synaxaria. Cantidius and Cantidian were...