Saints

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  Dasius of Dorostorum

  Dasius was a Christian of Dorostorum on the lower Danube who was beheaded for Christ, by tradition on November 20 of about the year 303, in...

• David and Tarichan of Georgia

  David and Tarichan were two Georgian boys, the children of the nobleman Vardan and his wife Tagine, kinsfolk of the royal house, murdered in...

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  David of Hermopolis

  David of Hermopolis was the leader of a band of robbers in the Egyptian desert who, moved in old age to reckon with his crimes, forced his w...

• David of Saint Anne's Skete

  David was an Athonite monk of the Skete of Saint Anne who was hanged at Thessalonica on 26 June 1813 for confessing Christ before the Ottoma...

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  David of Thessalonica

  David the Dendrite is the most beloved of the ascetics of Thessalonica and one of the best documented of the tree-dwelling hermits of the Ch...

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  David the Builder

  David the Builder (c. 1073–1125), David IV of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the greatest of the kings of Georgia and is venerated by the Georg...

• Deiniol of Bangor

  Deiniol (Daniel) was the founder, abbot and first bishop of Bangor in Gwynedd, north Wales, in the sixth century. The Welsh genealogies make...

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  Demetrius Donskoy

  Demetrius Ivanovich (12 October 1350 – 19 May 1389), Grand Prince of Moscow, is honoured by the Russian Church as a right-believing prince:...

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  Demetrius of Priluki

  Demetrius of Priluki (†1392) was a monastic founder of the Russian North and a friend and contemporary of Saint Sergius of Radonezh. Born to...

• Demetrius of Samarina

  Demetrius was a monk of Samarina, the high Vlach village of the Pindus in Epirus, who was tortured to death by Ali Pasha of Ioannina on 17 A...

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  Demetrius of Thessalonica

  Demetrius the Myrrh-streamer (†c. 306) is, with George, one of the two most beloved warrior-martyrs of the Christian East and the patron of...

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  Demetrius of Uglich

  Demetrius (Dimitry) Ivanovich, youngest son of Ivan IV the Terrible, was born at Moscow in 1582 and died at Uglich on 15 May 1591, aged eigh...

• Demetrius, Evanthia and Demetrian of Skepsis

  Demetrius, his wife Evanthia, and their son Demetrian were a family of the first century martyred together at Skepsis on the Hellespont. Dem...

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  Dimitry of Rostov

  Dimitry of Rostov (1651–1709), in the world Daniel Tuptalo, was Metropolitan of Rostov and the greatest churchman-scholar of the Russian Chu...

• Dinar of Hereti

  Dinar (Dinara) was the tenth-century queen of Hereti, the principality of south-eastern Georgia on the Alazani between Kakheti and the Cauca...

• Diodorus and Rhodopianus

  Diodorus and Rhodopianus were deacons of the church of Aphrodisias in Caria, on the south-western coastlands of Asia Minor, who were stoned...

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  Diodorus, Didymus and Diomedes of Laodicea

  Diodorus, Didymus and Diomedes were martyrs of Laodicea, natives of the city in which they suffered, put to death for Christ by scourging —...

• Diomedes and Laurence

  Diomedes and Laurence are two martyrs of whom the Church has kept the day, the manner of death, and nothing else. The Synaxarion of Constant...

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  Diomedes of Tarsus

  Diomedes was a physician of Tarsus in Cilicia who practised his art without fee and used the sickbed as a pulpit, healing bodies and preachi...

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  Dionysius of Glushitsa

  Dionysius of Glushitsa (1363–1437) was one of the great founders of the Northern Thebaid, the monastic wilderness of the Russian north. Born...

• Dionysius of Korisos

  Dionysius was a peasant's son from Korisos near Kastoria in western Macedonia who went young to the Holy Mountain, was formed there by his e...

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  Dionysius of Olympus

  Dionysius of Olympus (c. 1490s – 1541) was a Greek ascetic and monastic founder of the Ottoman period, remembered as a light of the enslaved...

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  Dionysius of Radonezh

  Dionysius (c. 1570 – 1633), in the world David Zobninovsky, was archimandrite of the Trinity–Saint Sergius Lavra from 1611 and, with Patriar...

• Dionysius of Suzdal

  Dionysius was the cave-dwelling founder of the Pechersky (Caves) monastery of the Ascension at Nizhny Novgorod, the teacher of a generation...

• Dionysius of Vatopedi

  Dionysius was a monk of the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos who was sent out in 1822 with the monastery's greatest treasure, the Holy Belt...

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  Dionysius of Zakynthos

  Dionysius (c. 1547–1622) was a nobleman of the Ionian island of Zakynthos who became a monk and then Archbishop of Aegina, but soon resigned...

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  Dionysius the Areopagite

  Dionysius the Areopagite (†c. 96) was the judge of the Athenian high court who believed at the Apostle Paul's sermon on the Areopagus (Acts...

• Dionysius the Rhetor and Metrophanes

  Two monks of the Monastery of Stoudios at Constantinople who came to the Holy Mountain at the turn of the sixteenth century in search of sti...

• Dios of Antioch

  Dios (Δῖος, "of Zeus" by the accident of a pagan name) was an Antiochene ascetic of the later fourth century who carried the discipline of t...

• Djan Darada the Ethiopian Eunuch

  The Ethiopian eunuch of Acts 8 — the treasurer of Queen Candace, reading the prophet Isaiah in his chariot on the road down from Jerusalem t...

• Dodo of Gareji

  Dodo (†c. 623) was the first and closest disciple of David of Gareji, one of the Thirteen Syrian Fathers who established monasticism in the...

• Dometian of Melitene

  Dometian (c. 550 – 601) was Bishop of Melitene in Armenia Minor, a kinsman of the emperor Maurice and one of the most trusted churchmen and...

• Dometius of Dionysiou

  Dometius was a hieromonk of the Holy Mountain, the confidant and fellow-ascetic of Dionysius of Korisos, founder of the monastery of the Hon...

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  Dometius of Persia

  Dometius was a Persian by birth who came to faith in Christ through a Christian of his own household or acquaintance, and who — driven out b...

• Dometius of Philotheou

  Dometius, surnamed σημειοφόρος, "the sign-bearer" — the Greek epithet for an ascetic through whom God works signs — was a solitary of the Ho...

• Dometius the Wonderworker

  Dometius was a monastic saint of the fourth century, commemorated on March 8 and styled by the tradition a wonderworker. Very little is tran...

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  Domnica of Constantinople

  Domnica of Constantinople (fourth century – c. 474) was a venerable amma of the imperial city, remembered as a foundress of monastic life fo...

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  Domnina and her Daughters

  Domnina of Syria and her daughters Berenice and Prosdoce (†c. 302–306) were women of Antioch who, fleeing the Diocletianic persecution, were...

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  Domnina of Anazarbus

  Domnina of Anazarbus (†286) was a Christian woman of Cilicia who confessed Christ before the governor in the early years of Diocletian's rei...

• Domnina the Younger of Syria

  Domnina the Younger (†c. 450–460) was a Syrian ascetic of the region of Cyrrhus, one of the enclosed holy women whose lives Theodoret, bisho...

• Donagus of Libya

  Donagus — the name appears in the English calendars as Donatus — is a hieromartyr, a priest or bishop put to death for Christ, commemorated...

• Donatus of Euroea

  Donatus, bishop of Euroea in Epirus in the second half of the fourth century, is one of the very few wonderworking hierarchs of the age whos...

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  Dorothea of Caesarea

  Dorothea (†c. 304) was a Christian maiden of Caesarea in Cappadocia, martyred in the persecution of Diocletian and celebrated for her beauty...

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  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Abba Dorotheus (c. 505 – c. 565) is one of the two or three most widely read spiritual writers of the Palestinian desert. Educated in classi...

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  Dorotheus of Tyre

  Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyre in Phoenicia, is remembered as one of the oldest martyrs of the Church: a hierarch of great learning who survived...

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  Dorotheus the Hermit of Egypt

  Dorotheus (4th century), called the Theban from his birthplace in the Thebaid, was an Egyptian hermit who pursued for some sixty years one o...

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  Dositheus of Gaza

  Dositheus (sixth century) was the young disciple of Abba Dorotheus of Gaza, and the living illustration of his master's teaching on obedienc...

• Doulas of Cilicia

  Doulas was a Christian of Praetoriada in Cilicia who suffered in the persecution under Maximian, between about 305 and 313. Arrested and bro...

• Doulas the Passion-bearer

  Doulas was a monk of one of the Egyptian monasteries whose whole ascetic labour lay in being wronged. For twenty years he bore the mockery,...

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  Dovmont-Timothy of Pskov

  Dovmont (Lithuanian Daumantas, †1299) was a pagan Lithuanian prince of Nalšia who fled the dynastic bloodletting of his homeland in 1265, ca...