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Archbishop who founded the first great hospital and wrote rules for monastic life.

A priest of Ancyra who openly rebuked the revival of paganism under Julian the Apostate and was cruelly tortured and martyred for refusing to renounce Christ.

A monk from the East who entered the Colosseum to halt a gladiatorial combat and was killed by the crowd; his death moved the emperor Honorius to abolish the games.

Mother of a household of saints — among them Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Macrina the Younger, and Peter of Sebaste — she raised her children in piety and ended her life in monastic stillness.

Abbess of Rossory in Fermanagh; sister of St. Enda of Aran, whom she persuaded to embrace the monastic life.

Bishop of Nazianzus and father of Saint Gregory the Theologian; once a member of the Hypsistarian sect, he was brought to the faith through the prayers of his wife Saint Nonna and shepherded his flock into great old age.

Bishop of Parium on the Hellespont, martyred by drowning for refusing military service and confessing Christ.

A young Georgian sold into slavery and taken to Mytilene, where he was forced to embrace Islam; decades later, as an old man, he came forward to confess Christ openly and was hanged for it in 1770.

A married noblewoman of Murom who, amid family duties, famine, and the loss of children, gave herself wholly to caring for the poor and sick, selling her possessions to feed the hungry.

The mother of Saints Cosmas and Damian, remembered for raising her sons in the Christian faith after their pagan father died.

Hermit who greeted all with 'My joy!' and radiated the grace of the Spirit.

Pope of Rome during the reign of St. Constantine the Great, under whom the Church gained peace after the persecutions; tradition credits him with baptizing the emperor.

A monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra remembered for obedience and ceaseless prayer.

A Georgian historian who guarded his nation's sacred treasures through revolution and exile, living in voluntary poverty; he was called 'the Man of God.'

A holy virgin whose prayers protected Paris in crisis.

A centurion of Caesarea in Cappadocia who withdrew to the wilderness, then returned to confess Christ openly in the arena and was martyred.

The last of the Old Testament prophets, who foretold the coming of the Forerunner and the Sun of Righteousness.

An ascetic near the Asian Mount Olympus who spent his life in fasting and unceasing prayer.

The ruler of the synagogue at Corinth who believed with all his house and was baptized by Paul, later numbered among the Seventy and bishop of Aegina.

A hermit arrested under Diocletian, and the prison official Athanasius who, witnessing his steadfastness, confessed Christ and fled with him to the wilderness.

Archbishop of Serbia and a successor of St Sava in that see; formerly a monk of Hilandar on Mount Athos, he shepherded the Serbian Church for about seven years and reposed around 1286.

A monk of Hilandar on Mount Athos, born near Gabrovo, who was beheaded at Chios in 1818 after openly confessing Christ before the Ottoman authorities.

A monk of Crete who bore leprosy for decades with serene patience and unceasing prayer, becoming a comfort to fellow sufferers.

The Seventy whom Christ sent out two by two (Luke 10), commemorated together as a synaxis alongside their individual feasts.