Saints
42 Martyrs of Amorion in Phrygia
03-06These Martyrs, men of high rank in the Roman (Byzantine) army, were taken captive when the city of Amorion in Phrygia fell to the Moslem Arabs in…
Gerasimus the Righteous of Jordan
03-04This Saint, who was from Lycia in Asia Minor, lived there for many years as a hermit, and then went to Palestine. There he built the great Lavra by…
Hesychius the Martyr
03-02From ἡσῠ́χῐος (hēsúkhios, “quiet”, “reposeful”). Holy martyr Hesychius…
The Holy Righteous Martyr Eudocia the Samaritan
03-01A Greek name Ευδοκια (Eudokia) means " Good thought "…
Basil the Confessor
02-28Saints Procopius and Basil, fellow ascetics, lived about the middle of the eighth century, during the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741), from whom…
Righteous John Cassian the Confessor
02-28This Saint was born about the year 350, and was, according to some, from Rome, according to others, from Dacia Pontica (Dobrogea in present-day…
Procopius the Confessor of Decapolis
02-27Latin form of the Greek name Προκοπιος…
The Holy Great Martyr Photine, the Samaritan Women
02-26Commemorated on March 20 (also commemorated on February 26 & the “Sunday of the Samaritan Woman”) St. Photini lived in first…
