Saints

• Capito and Hymenaeus

  Capito and Hymenaeus are a pair of martyrs whom the Synaxarion of Constantinople enters under July 24, after the great martyr Christina of T...

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  Capitolina and Eroteis of Cappadocia

  Capitolina and Eroteis (Eroteida) were a Cappadocian mistress and her servant martyred about the year 304, in the persecution of Diocletian....

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  Carpus and Alphaeus of the Seventy

  On May 26 the Church keeps the joint memory of two of the Seventy Apostles: Carpus, the host at whose house in Troas the Apostle Paul left t...

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  Carpus, Papylus, Agathodorus and Agathonica

  Carpus, Papylus, Agathodorus and Agathonica (†c. 251) are the chief martyrs of October 13: in the Byzantine tradition, Carpus the bishop of...

• Cassian of Komel

  Cassian of Komel (†1537) was a disciple of Cornelius of Komel and, for a time, abbot of his master's monastery of the Presentation in the Ko...

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  Cassian the Greek of Uglich

  Cassian was a Greek prince of the Crimea who became a Russian hermit. Born into the ruling house of Mangup — the principality of Theodoro in...

• Castor the Martyr

  Castor is a martyr commemorated on September 18 of whom nothing is transmitted beyond his name and his end: he suffered death for the open c...

• Castor the Venerable

  Castor is a venerable monastic commemorated in the Greek synaxaria on August 12, of whom the books preserve one clause: ὁ Ὅσιος Κάστωρ ἐν εἰ...

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  Catherine of Alexandria

  Catherine of Alexandria (†c. 305) is among the most celebrated of the virgin-martyrs, a noblewoman of Alexandria of rare learning and beauty...

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  Cecilia, Valerian, Tiburtius and Maximus

  Cecilia was a Roman noblewoman of the early third century who, having vowed her virginity to Christ, converted on her wedding night her betr...

• Celestine of Rome

  Celestine (Pope of Rome 422–432) was a defender of the Orthodox faith against the heresy of Nestorius, standing with St Cyril of Alexandria...

• Celestine the Martyr

  Celestine is a martyr known to the Church from a single line of the synaxarion. Under May 25, after the notice of the Third Finding of the P...

• Ceolfrid of Wearmouth

  Ceolfrid (Ceolfrith; c. 642–716) was abbot of the twin Northumbrian monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, the teacher and lifelong father of Be...

• Chairemon of Egypt

  Chairemon was an anchorite of Scetis, the great desert south-west of the Nile delta, at the turn of the fourth and fifth centuries. What the...

• Charisimus and Neophytus

  Charisimus and Neophytus were the two household servants who attended the young pagan noblewoman Anthusa on her flight from Seleucia to Tars...

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  Charitina of Amisus

  Charitina of Amisus (†304) was a young virgin-martyr of Pontus on the Black Sea coast: an orphan brought up as his own daughter by the Chris...

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  Chariton the Confessor

  Chariton the Confessor (†c. 350) was a citizen of Iconium who suffered torture for Christ under the emperor Aurelian, survived, and became t...

• Christina of Persia

  Christina (fourth century) was a martyr of Persia, a young woman who was scourged to death for confessing her faith in Christ during one of...

• Christina of Tyre

  Christina was, the Greek passion says, the daughter of Urban, the Roman governor of Tyre in Phoenicia, and was shut up by him at the age of...

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  Christodoulos of Patmos

  Christodoulos (c. 1020 – 1093), baptised John, was a Byzantine monk and abbot of the eleventh century and the founder of one of the great ho...

• Christodoulos the Philosopher

  Christodoulos was a Georgian scholar-monk from the village of Sakara in Imereti, remembered in his own Church as a philosopher and a controv...

• Christopher of Antioch

  Christopher, Patriarch of Antioch from about 960 until 967, is the one medieval patriarch of the Antiochian see honoured as a martyr. A Chri...

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  Christopher of Lycia

  Christopher, the great-martyr of Lycia, is one of the most widely venerated and most strangely depicted saints of the whole Christian world....

• Christopher of Mela

  Christopher was born at Gazara, a place near Trebizond in Pontus, and governed the monastery of the Theotokos on Mount Mela — the Soumela of...

• Christopher of Palestine

  Christopher, called the Roman because he came to the East from Italy, was a sixth-century monk of the great Lavra of Saint Theodosius in the...

• Christos the Gardener

  Christos (Kristo) the Gardener (c. 1708 – 1748) was a new martyr of the Ottoman period — a simple Albanian market-gardener who died at Const...

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  Chrysanthus and Daria

  Chrysanthus and Daria (†c. 283) were a young married couple martyred at Rome in the reign of the emperor Numerian. Chrysanthus was the son o...

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  Chrysogonus of Aquileia

  Chrysogonus (†c. 304) was a learned and devout Roman Christian, the teacher and lifelong spiritual guide of the great-martyr Anastasia the D...

• Ciaran of Clonmacnoise

  Ciaran the Younger (c. 512 – c. 549), called in Irish mac in tSaír, "son of the wright", was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland and the f...

• Cissa of Crowland

  Cissa was an eighth-century hermit of Crowland in the English fenland, a disciple of St Guthlac and his successor as keeper of the hermitage...

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  Clement of Ancyra

  Clement of Ancyra (c. 258 – c. 312) was bishop of Ancyra in Galatia and one of the most enduring of all the martyrs of the synaxarion: the t...

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  Clement of Ohrid

  Clement of Ohrid (c. 840 – 916) was the chief of the disciples of Cyril and Methodius, the first bishop of the Slavs to preach, serve and wr...

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  Clement of Rome

  Clement was bishop of Rome at the end of the first century (episcopate c. 92–101) and one of the Apostolic Fathers — the generation taught d...

• Clement the Hymnographer

  Clement "the Poet" (ὁ Ποιητής) is one of the great canon-writers of the iconophile generation: a monk of the late eighth and early ninth cen...

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  Cleopatra and her son John

  Cleopatra was a widow of Edra near Mount Tabor in Palestine who, living in Egypt, witnessed the martyrdom of Varus (†c. 307), buried his bod...

• Colman Elo

  Colmán Elo (†611) is one of the great abbots of the generation after Columba, and by the tradition of the Martyrology of Donegal his sister'...

• Columba of Iona

  Columba (521–597) — Colum Cille, "the dove of the church" — is with Patrick and Brigid one of the three patrons of Ireland, and the enlighte...

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  Concordius of Spoleto

  Concordius was the son of a Roman presbyter named Gordian, raised in the faith and made subdeacon by the bishop of Rome; with his father's l...

• Conon and his son Conon of Iconium

  Conon and his son, also named Conon, were martyrs of Iconium in Lycaonia (Asia Minor) in the third century, about the years 270–275. Left a...

• Conon of Isauria

  Conon of Isauria (first–second century) was an apostolic-age wonderworker of the village of Bidana near Isauria in Asia Minor, a region evan...

• Conon of Penthucla

  Conon (sixth century) was a Cilician who from his youth was a monk of the monastery of Penthucla near the Jordan, ordained presbyter and app...

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  Conon the Gardener

  Conon the Gardener (martyred about the year 251) was a simple and guileless labourer of the town of Mandon in Pamphylia — a native of Nazare...

• Constantia of Paphos

  Constantia is remembered for a single grief. She was a devout woman of the district of Paphos in Cyprus whose daughter and son-in-law had be...

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  Constantine Brâncoveanu and his sons

  Constantine Brâncoveanu (1654–1714), Prince of Wallachia for twenty-six years, was the greatest patron the Romanian Church ever had — builde...

• Constantine and Cosmas of Kosinsk

  Constantine and Cosmas were monks of the Khutyn monastery near Novgorod, of the generation formed by Barlaam of Khutyn and by Anthony of Dym...

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  Constantine and Helen

  Constantine the Great (c. 272–337) and his mother Helen (c. 248–330) are commemorated together on May 21 as Equal-to-the-Apostles — the only...

• Constantine of Constantinople

  Constantine I was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for not quite two years, from September 675 to his repose on 9 August 677 — the las...

• Constantine of Kiev

  Constantine, a Greek sent from Constantinople, was Metropolitan of Kiev from 1156 to 1158 in the bitterest crisis the young Church of Rus ha...

• Constantine of the Agarenes

  Constantine (†2 June 1819) was born a Muslim in the village of Ypsilometopo on Lesbos, and was healed in his blindness as a boy by the holy...

• Constantine, Michael and Theodore of Murom

  Constantine of Murom and his two sons Michael and Theodore are venerated as the baptisers of Murom, the last considerable pagan city of Rus'...