Lives of Saints

Numerous hagiographies are included below, very edifying both in the teaching of the Faith and in the image of the Orthodox life they impress upon our souls.

Prologue of Ochrid#

This is a collection of abbreviated lives of the saints for each day of the year. It is all in one huge searchable file.

• Prologue of Ochrid

Apostles#

• The Commemoration of the Honourable Chains of the Holy and all-praised Apostle Peter

• The Life of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian

Hierarchs#

• St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindesfarne (†721)

• Saint John the Almsgiver

• Life of Saint John Maximovitch, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Fransisco

• Holy Hierarch and Wonderworker Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia

• Miracles of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

Monastic Saints#

• St. Agapius of the Holy Mountain

• Saint Benedict of Nursia

• Saint Columban of Bobbio

• Saint Genevieve of Paris

• Saint Isaac, the Elder of Optina (1810-1895)

• Saint Anatoly the Younger, the Elder of Optina (1922)

• Saint Mary of Egypt

• Saint Nikon The Dry

• The Life of Our Holy Mother Pelagia the Nun, Who Was Once a Harlot

• St. Sergius of Radonezh

• The Commemoration of an Unknown Monk who was accounted worthy of an apparition of the Archangel Gabriel.

Martyrs#

• The Life of Saint Basil the Virgin-Martyr of Mangazea - Protector Against the Sin of Homosexuality

• Holy Martyr Eustraty the Faster

• The Life of the Holy Martyr Varus and the Seven Christian Teachers Who Were with Him, and the Commemoration of the Blessed Cleopatra and Her Son John

Martyred by the Latins#

• The Suffering Of The Holy Hieromartyr Isidore The Priest And The Seventy-Two Martyred With Him In Yuriev of Livonia

• The Holy New Martyr, Saint Athanasius of Brest (+ 1648)

New Martyrs Under the Turkish Yoke#

• Saint Andrew the Russian, Confessor in Cairo

• New Martyr Cyprian the New

• St. Gregory V, Patriarch of Constantinople (†1821)

• New Martyr John the Bulgarian (†1784)

• New Martyr Luke (†1802)

• New-Martyr Nicholas of Metsovon (†1617)

• Ss. Raphael, Nicholas and Irene (†1463)

• New Martyr Timothy of Esphigmenou (†1820)

New Martyrs of Russia#

In the first half of the Twentieth Century, during the Bolshevik Revolution, and the years following, millions of Russian Orthodox Christians were martyred for their Faith.

• Alexander Jacobson (†1930)

• Archbishop Dimitry of Gdov (†1938)

• Saint Gregory the Cross Bearer

• Bishop Hierotheus and Schema-Hieromonk Seraphim (†1927)

• Metropolitan Joseph of Petrograd (†1938)

• The New Martyr Lydia and with her the Soldiers Cyril and Alexei (†1928)

• Matushka Maria of Gatchina (†1930)

• Bishop Maxim of Serpukhov (†1930)

• The Nuns of Shamordino

• Bishop Victor of Glazov (†1934)

Miraculous Icons#

• An Account: The Theotokos (Cassiope Icon) Gives Eyes to a Blind Man

• Kursk-Root Icon of Our Lady of the Sign

Some Short, but Nice, Excerpts from the Lives of the Saints#

• From the Life of Saint Basil the Great - The Arian Madness and Seizure of the Cathedral

• From the Life of Saint Basil the Great - The Divine Liturgy

• Saint Seraphim the Wonder-worker of Sarov on the Old Believers