Saints

• Conval of Inchinnan

  Conval (Conwall, Convallus; †c. 630 in the calendar tradition) was an Irishman — the Aberdeen Breviary makes him a son of an Irish prince —...

• Coprius of Palestine

  Coprius of Palestine (†c. 530) was a monk of the great cenobium of St. Theodosius near Bethlehem whose whole life, from its first hour, belo...

• Cormac of Cashel

  Cormac mac Cuilennáin (c. 837–908) was at once bishop of Cashel and king of Munster — one of the most celebrated figures of early Irish hist...

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  Cornelius of Komel

  Cornelius of Komel (1457 – 19 May 1537) was the founder of the monastery of the Presentation of the Mother of God in the Komel forest south...

• Cornelius of Paleostrov

  Cornelius of Paleostrov was a monk of Pskov who at the end of the fourteenth century crossed into the Olonets country and became the founder...

• Cornelius of Pereyaslavl

  Born Konon to a merchant family of Pereyaslavl-Ryazan, he left his father's house at fifteen for the monastic life and settled at last in th...

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  Cornelius of the Pskov Caves

  Cornelius (1501–1570) was the great abbot of the Pskov Caves (Pskovo-Pechersky) Monastery, under whom that border-house rose to be one of th...

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  Cornelius the Centurion

  Cornelius the Centurion is the Roman officer of Acts 10 — a devout, alms-giving "God-fearer" of the Italian Cohort at Caesarea in Palestine...

• Cornutus of Iconium

  Cornutus, bishop of Iconium — the Slavic calendars call him Coronatus, bishop of Nicomedia, and the see is transmitted both ways — was marty...

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  Cosmas and Damian of Arabia

  Cosmas and Damian of Arabia (†c. 287) are the third of the three pairs of holy unmercenary physicians of that name whom the Byzantine calend...

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  Cosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia

  Cosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia (3rd–4th c.) are the first and greatest of the three pairs of holy unmercenary physicians of that name, and...

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  Cosmas and Damian of Rome

  Cosmas and Damian of Rome (†c. 284) are the second of the three pairs of holy unmercenary brother-physicians of that name whom the Byzantine...

• Cosmas of Chalcedon and Auxentius

  Cosmas, Bishop of Chalcedon, and his companion Auxentius were confessors of the holy icons in the iconoclast persecution. Cosmas, chosen bis...

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  Cosmas of Maiuma

  Cosmas of Maiuma (†c. 760), called the Hymnographer, the Melodist, and simply "the Poet," is with John of Damascus one of the two great mast...

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  Cosmas of Yakhroma

  Cosmas of Yakhroma (†1492) was a Russian monastic saint, founder and abbot of the Dormition monastery on the river Yakhroma near Vladimir. A...

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  Cosmas the Aetolian

  Cosmas the Aetolian (c. 1714–1779) was a monk of Philotheou on Mount Athos who left the Holy Mountain to spend the last twenty years of his...

• Cosmas the Hermit of Palestine

  Cosmas the eunuch was a hermit of the Lavra of Pharan, the oldest of the monastic settlements of the Judaean desert, in the sixth century. H...

• Cronides, Leontius and Serapion

  Cronides (Chronides), Leontius and Serapion were Christians of Egypt who suffered martyrdom at Alexandria in the third century. Refusing to...

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  Cuthbert of Lindisfarne

  Cuthbert (c. 634 – 687) was the greatest saint of the early English Church and the wonderworker of Northumbria — a shepherd boy who, seeing...

• Cynfarch

  Cynfarch (in later English lists "Kingsmark") is a Welsh saint of the fifth century whose feast of September 8 stands in the old Welsh calen...

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  Cyprian and Justina

  Cyprian and Justina (†c. 304) are the protagonists of one of the most famous of all passiones: Cyprian, the great sorcerer of Antioch, hired...

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  Cyprian of Carthage

  Cyprian, bishop of Carthage from 248/249 until his beheading on 14 September 258, is the greatest Latin churchman of the age before Constant...

• Cyprian of Suzdal

  Blessed Cyprian was a fool-for-Christ of the Suzdal country who pursued his struggle in solitude on an island at the confluence of the river...

• Cyprian the New of Koutloumousiou

  Cyprian the New was a hieromonk of the Holy Mountain, of the cell of Saint George dependent on the monastery of Koutloumousiou, who was behe...

• Cyprian the Righteous of Antioch

  Cyprian is a saint of the Greek synaxarion of May 30, entered with two facts only: that he was of Antioch, and that he reposed in peace — th...

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  Cyrenia and Juliana

  Cyrenia and Juliana (†c. 305) were two Christian women of Cilicia martyred by fire in the persecution of Maximian Galerius. Cyrenia was from...

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  Cyriacus the Hermit

  Cyriacus the Hermit (448–556) was one of the great anchorites of the Judean desert: a Corinthian who came to Palestine at eighteen, was clot...

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  Cyricus and Julitta

  Julitta was a Christian widow of noble family at Iconium in Lycaonia who fled the persecution of Diocletian with her infant son Cyricus — th...

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  Cyril of Alexandria

  Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 – 444) was Archbishop of Alexandria and the greatest of the Church's Christological doctors — the "Seal of the F...

• Cyril of Antioch

  Cyril was bishop of Antioch the Great at the turn of the fourth century — the immediate predecessor of the persecution, whose episcopate end...

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  Cyril of Gortyna

  Cyril was bishop of Gortyna, the metropolis of Roman Crete and the see founded by the Apostle Titus, and he was martyred there as a very old...

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  Cyril of Jerusalem

  Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313 – 386) was Archbishop of Jerusalem for some thirty-five years and one of the great catechists and teachers of the...

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  Cyril of Novoezersk

  Cyril of Novoezersk (c. 1450s – 1532) was a Russian monastic founder and wonderworker of the northern forests, disciple of Cornelius of Kome...

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  Cyril of Turov

  Cyril, Bishop of Turov, is the greatest preacher of Kievan Rus and one of the finest writers in the whole of Old East Slavonic literature —...

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  Cyril of White Lake

  Cyril of White Lake (1337–1427) is the greatest of the founders of the "Northern Thebaid" and, after Sergius of Radonezh, the most influenti...

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  Cyril the Philosopher

  Cyril (c. 826 – 869), born Constantine at Thessalonica and known in his own day as the Philosopher, was the Byzantine scholar-monk who, with...

• Cyrilla of Cyrene

  Cyrilla was a widow of Cyrene in the Libyan Pentapolis who was put to death for Christ in the last of the imperial persecutions, about the y...

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  Cyrus and John

  Cyrus and John (†c. 311) are among the most beloved of the holy unmercenaries — the anargyroi, physicians who healed without payment in the...

• Dada, Gabdelas and Casdoa

  Dada, Gabdelas and Casdoa were martyrs of fourth-century Persia under King Shapur II, whose long persecution made the Persian church a churc...

• Dalmatus of Constantinople

  Dalmatus (died about 440) was an officer of the imperial guard under Theodosius the Great who left the palace for the cell, entered the mona...

• Damaris of Athens

  Damaris of Athens (1st century) was the first woman of Athens to believe in Christ, converted by the preaching of the Apostle Paul on the Ar...

• Damascene of Gabrovo

  Damascene the New (†1771) was a Bulgarian hieromonk of the Hilandar monastery on Mount Athos, martyred at Svishtov on the Danube under the O...

• Damian of Esphigmenou

  Damian (thirteenth century, † c. 1280) was a hesychast of the Monastery of Esphigmenou on Mount Athos, a disciple of the elder Cosmas who, a...

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  Damiane of Georgia

  Damiane was King Demetre I of Georgia (reigned 1125–1156), the son and successor of St David the Builder, who held together the great kingdo...

• Damon

  Damon is a hieromartyr known from a single manuscript. He is absent from the Synaxarion of Constantinople and from the printed Menaia; the o...

• Danax the Reader

  Danax was a reader (anagnostes) of the church at Auleon in the region of Illyria (Macedonia), martyred in the second century when a band of...

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  Daniel of Moscow

  Daniel of Moscow (1261–1303) was the first prince of Moscow and the progenitor of the line — the house of Daniel — from which came the Grand...

• Daniel of Sketis

  Daniel of Sketis was the great Egyptian elder of the sixth century, priest and hegumen of Sketis in the Nitrian desert, remembered less for...

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  Daniel the Prophet

  Daniel, of the royal seed of Judah, was carried to Babylon as a youth in the first deportation under Nebuchadnezzar (c. 605 BC) and rose to...

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  Daniel the Stylite

  Daniel the Stylite (c. 409–493) was the great pillar-saint of the Bosphorus and the foremost heir of Symeon the Stylite, whose leather mantl...