List of articles in "Saint" category - Page 23

Nine Brothers Kherkheulidze (Georgian: ცხრა ძმა ხერხეულიძე) with their mother and sister were heroes of the Battle of Marabda. All of them died defending their motherland.In 1625 Shah Abbas I […]

St Baradates (died circa 460) was a hermit who lived in the Diocese of Cyrrhus in Syria and whose bishop Theodoret called him the admirable Baradates.Baradates lived in a tiny […]

Nicetas (Russ. Никита Nikita Ukrain. Микита from Greek Νικήτας Niketas) is a Christian martyr of the 4th century venerated above all in the Russian Orthodox Church. His feastday is 15 […]

Balai of Qenneshrin (Syriac: ܒܠܝ ܕܩܢܫܪܝܢ) was a Assyrian saint who lived in Qinnasrin in the 5th century CE.Very little is known about his early life. It has been suggested […]

Saint Zay’ā (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܙܝܐ) was a travelling mystic holy man and healer who made his way from Palestine to the mountains of northern Mesopotamia and Assyria spreading Christianity with […]

St. Theopemptus was the Bishop of Nicomedia and a Hieromartyr under the rule of Diocletian. He is known for being one of the first victims of Diocletian’s religious persecution. He […]

Jai Gurudev was the name used by Tulsidas Maharaj a religious leader in northern India. He was imprisoned for 20 months during a period of political unrest in 1975 and […]

Blessed Father Michal Sopocko (November 1 1888 in Vilnius Region Russian Empire – February 15 1975 in Bialystok Poland) was a Roman Catholic priest and professor of pastoral theology at […]

Andrew the Apostle (Greek: Ἀνδρέας Andreas; from the early 1st century – mid to late 1st century AD; known by some as Saint Andrew) called in the Orthodox tradition Prōtoklētos […]

Angela Truszkowska (May 16 1825 – October 10 1898) was an unusually pious Polish nun who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska with her deep […]