Pre-Schism Saints of the Orthodox Roman Patriarchate*
22nd May, (9th May O.S.):
- BEATUS, (Date unknown.) an early hermit, venerated as the Apostle of Switzerland. His hermitage was at the place now called Beatenberg above the Lake of Thun.
- GERONTIUS, a Bishop of Cervia near Ravenna who was murdered in Cagli on the Flaminian Way, circa 501, which led to him being honoured as a martyr.
- GORFOR, (Date unknown.) the Patron of Llanover in Gwent in Wales.
- GREGORY OF OSTIA, a Bishop of Ostia who a great deal of time in Navarre and Old Castile. He reposed at Logroño circa 1044.
- JOHN OF CHÂLON, the third Bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône. He was consecrated by St. Patiens of Lyons (10th September). St. John reposed circa 475.
- SANCTAN, (Sixth century.) a Bishop of Kill-da-Les and Kill-na-Sanctan near Dublin in Ireland.
- VINCENT, Abbot of St. Peter de Montes in Spain as well as a disciple and successor of St. Gennadius (25th May). He reposed circa 950.
* - Prior to the Schism the Patriarchate of Rome was Orthodox and fully in communion with the Orthodox Church. As Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco +1966 said "The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable Liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."
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Pre-Schism Saints of the Orthodox Roman Patriarchate*
21st May, (8th May O.S.):
- BENEDICT II, Pope of Rome from 683 until his repose in 685.
- BONIFACE IV, a native of Valeria in the Abruzzi, he became a monk at St. Sebastian in Rome. He was Pope of Rome from 608 until his repose in 615.
- DESIDERATUS, (Sixth century.) the successor of St. Arcadius (1st August) as Bishop of Bourges.
- DIONYSIUS, the successor of St. Justus (6th May) as Bishop of Vienne in the Dauphiné, he reposed circa 193.
- GIBRIAN, a hermit in Ireland who reposed circa 515. The eldest of five brothers and three sisters, all of whom went to Brittany and became saints there. Their names are given as Tressan, Helan, Germanus, Abran (or Gibrian), Petran, Franca, Promptia and Possenna.
- HELLADIUS OF AUXERRE, a bishop of Auxerre for thirty years. He converted his successor, St. Amator (1st May), reposing in 387.
- IDA (ITA, IDUBERGA) OF NIVELLES, a widow who became a nun at Nivelles, under her daughter, St. Gertrude (17th March). St. Ida reposed in 652.
- ODRIAN, (Date uncertain.) an early Bishop of Waterford in Ireland.
- VICTOR THE MOOR, a soldier from Mauritania in North Africa who was martyred in Milan under Maximian in 303.
- WIRO, PLECHELM AND OTGER, the founders of a monastery at Odilienburg; St. Wiro became Bishop of Utrecht, and is one of the Apostles of Frisia. Wiro reposed circa 753.
* - Prior to the Schism the Patriarchate of Rome was Orthodox and fully in communion with the Orthodox Church. As Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco +1966 said "The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable Liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."
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Pre-Schism Saints of the Orthodox Roman Patriarchate*
20th May, (7th May O.S.):
- DOMITIAN, bishop of Maastricht and Apostle of the Meuse valley. He reposed circa 560 and his relics were venerated at Huy.
- JOHN OF BEVERLEY, a native of Harpham in Yorkshire who became a monk at Whitby. He was consecrated Bishop of Hexham and later served as Bishop of York. St. John ordained St. Bede (25th May) and founded a monastery at Beverley, reposing in 721.
- JUVENAL OF BENEVENTO, a Saint of Narni. He reposed circa 132 and his shrine is in Benevento.
- PETER OF PAVIA, the Bishop of Pavia during the reign of Luitprand, King of the Lombards. He reposed circa 735.
- PLACID (PLACIDUS, PLAIT), an abbot of St. Symphorian in Autun, he reposed circa 675.
- SERENICUS AND SERENUS, two brothers from a noble family in Spoleto, who became monks and later settled as hermits near the River Sarthe in Gaul. Serenus remained a hermit until the end of his life, but Serenicus became the abbot of a monastery with some one hundred and forty monks. They are believed to have reposed circa 669.
* - Prior to the Schism the Patriarchate of Rome was Orthodox and fully in communion with the Orthodox Church. As Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco +1966 said "The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable Liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."
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Pre-Schism Saints of the Orthodox Roman Patriarchate*
19th May, (6th May O.S.):
- BENEDICTA, a sixth century nun of the convent founded in Rome by St. Galla (5th October). Her repose was foretold to her by the Apostle Peter in a vision.
- EDBERT (EADBERT), a monk at Lindisfarne, and successor of St. Cuthbert (20th March) as Bishop. He was remarkable for his knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, and reposed in 698.
- JUSTUS OF VIENNE, a bishop of Vienne, who reposed circa 168. He was succeeded by Dionysius of Vienne (8th May).
- HELIODORUS, VENUSTUS AND COMPANIONS, a group of seventy-seven third century martyrs under Diocletian. Heliodorus and seven others were martyred in North Africa, while the other sixty-nine met their martyrdom in Milan.
- PETRONAX, called 'the second founder of Montecassino' — with a handful of monks, who had chosen him as their Abbot, he restored monastic life at Montecassino. St. Petronax reposed circa 747.
* - Prior to the Schism the Patriarchate of Rome was Orthodox and fully in communion with the Orthodox Church. As Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco +1966 said "The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable Liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."
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Pre-Schism Saints of the Orthodox Roman Patriarchate*
18th May, (5th May O.S.):
- BRITO (BRITONIUS), a bishop of Trier, who, although a firm opponent of the Priscillianists, refused to hand them over for punishment by the State. St. Brito reposed in 386.
- CRESCENTIANA, a fifth century martyr in Rome.
- ECHA (ETHA), a, anchorite priest at Crayke near York in England who reposed in 767.
- GERUNTIUS OF MILAN, the successor of St. Eusebius (12th August) as Bishop of Milan, he served from circa 465 until his reposed in 470).
- HILARY,a native of Lorraine who gained a high office in the local administration. His relative and friend, St. Honoratus (16th January), invited him to the monastery founded in Lérins, where Hilary then received baptism and became a monk. When St. Honoratus became Bishop of Arles, he took Hilary as his secretary. St. Hilary succeeded him and was famed for his zeal, reposing in 449.
- HYDROC, (Fifth century.) The patron saint of Lanhydroc in Cornwall.
- JOVINIAN, a
+ c 300. A companion of St. Peregrinus of Auxerre (16th May), whom he served as a reader. He is generally believed to have been martyred circa 300.
- MAURONTUS (MAURONT), the eldest son of Ss. Adalbald (2nd February) and Rictrudis (12th May). He became a monk at Marchiennes, and went on to found a monastery at Breuil-sur-lys near Douai, of which he is the patron-saint. St. Maurontus reposed in 701.
- NECTARIUS, a bishop of Vienne who reposed circa 445.
- NICETUS, the fifteenth bishop of Vienne, he reposed circa 449.
- SACERDOS, a Saint venerated in Murviedro in present-day Spain, who is believed to have been bishop there. He reposed circa 560.
- SILVANUS, (Date unknown.) a martyr in Rome.
- THEODORE OF BOLOGNA, the Bishop of Bologna from circa 530 until his repose circa 550.
- WALDRADA, the first Abbess of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnais in Metz, she reposed circa 620.
* - Prior to the Schism the Patriarchate of Rome was Orthodox and fully in communion with the Orthodox Church. As Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco +1966 said "The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable Liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."
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Pre-Schism Saints of the Orthodox Roman Patriarchate*
17th May, (4th May O.S.):
- ANTONY (DU ROCHER), (Sixth century.) the founder of the monastery of Saint Julian in Tours. He is traditionally thought to have been a disciple of St. Benedict (11th July) and companion of St. Maurus (27th January) in his mission to France, and is called 'du Rocher' because he ended his days as a hermit at a place called le Rocher.
- CONLETH, a hermit in Old Connell on the River Liffey in Ireland. St. Brigid (1st February) came to know him and he became the spiritual father of her nuns at Kildare, and later the first bishop of that See. A metalworker and very skilled as a copyist and illuminator, he reposed circa 519.
- CUNEGUND, a nun at the convent of Niedermunster in Ratisbon who reposed circa 1052.
- CURCODOMUS, a third century deacon in Rome who was sent to assist St. Peregrinus (16th May), first Bishop of Auxerre.
- CYRIACUS (QUIRIACUS), (Date unknown.) a bishop of Ancona in the Marches, who was martyred under Julian the Apostate in the Holy Land.
- ETHELRED (AILRED), a King of Mercia who abdicated in order to become a monk at Bardney, and later serving as abbot there. He reposed in 716.
- FLORIAN, a senior Roman officer in Noricum, present-day Upper Austria who was drowned in the River Enns near Lorsch under Diocletian in 304. He is the patron-saint of Upper Austria and Poland.
- GODEHARD (GODARD, GOTHARD), a native of Bavaria who became a monk at Niederaltaich. He went on to restore monastic life elsewhere. The monasteries of Tegernsee, Hersfeld and Kremsmünster all received abbots from Niederaltaich. In 1022 he became Bishop of Hildesheim and did much to spread the Faith reposing in 1038.
- HILSINDIS, a widowed noblewoman who founded the convent of Thorn on the Marne. St. Hilsindis reposed in 1028.
- NEPOTIAN, a nephew of St. Heliodorus (3rd July), Bishop of Altino near Venice. After leaving his senior position as an officer in the imperial bodyguard he was ordained by his uncle, reposing in 395.
- PAULINUS OF SINIGAGLIA, a bishop, and now patron-saint of Sinigaglia in present-day Italy. He reposed in 826.
- PAULINUS, (Date unknown.) a martyr whose relics are enshrined in Cologne.
- PORPHYRIUS, a priest in Umbria who was beheaded under Decius in 250.
- SACERDOS (SARDOT, SADROC, SARDOU, SERDON, SERDOT), a native of the Périgord region, who became a monk and in time founded Calabre. He later became Bishop of Limoges, reposing circa 720.
- VENERIUS, ordained to the deaconate by St. Ambrose (7th December), he later became Bishop of Milan. He reposed in 409, and is remembered for his loyal support of St. John Chrysostom.
* - Prior to the Schism the Patriarchate of Rome was Orthodox and fully in communion with the Orthodox Church. As Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco +1966 said "The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable Liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."
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Pre-Schism Saints of the Orthodox Roman Patriarchate*
16th May, (3rd May O.S.):
- ADALSINDIS, a sister of St Waldalenus (15th May), founder of the monastery of Bèze in Burgundy. She became abbess of a convent near Bèze, reposing circa 680.
- ALDWYN, an eighth century abbot of Partney in Lincolnshire in England.
- ALEXANDER I, (On Eastern Calendars 16th March.) The fifth Pope of Rome from circa 107 until his repose circa 115.
- ALEXANDER, EVENTIUS AND THEODULUS, three martyrs who are buried on the Via Nomentana in Rome — circa 113.
- ANSFRIDUS, a Count of Brabant, who wishing to become a monk, built the convent of Thorn for his daughter and wife in 992. Instead he was made Archbishop of Utrecht. While Archbishop he founded the monastery of Hohorst (Heiligenberg) where he retired when stricken with blindness, and thus fulfilling his ambition of living as a monk. St. Ansfridus reposed at Hohorst in 1010.
- ELWIN (ETHELWIN), (Eighth century.) the second Bishop of Lindsey. He was a close friend of St. Egbert (24th April), whom he accompanied to Ireland, and reposing there.
- GLUVIAS (GLYWYS), (Sixth century.) a brother of St. Cadoc (24th January) of Llancarfan in Wales, who went to Cornwall, where he founded a monastery. There is a church in Cornwall is dedicated to him.
- JUVENAL OF NARNI, the first Bishop of Narni. He reposed in 369.
- PHILIP OF ZELL, an English pilgrim who settled as a hermit near Worms. With several disciples, he founded the monastery of Zell — so called from his own original cell — which later grew into the town of Zell. St. Philip reposed circa 770.
- SCANNAL, Scannal of Cell-Coleraine in Ireland was a disciple of St. Columba (9th June), he reposed circa 563.
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* - Prior to the Schism the Patriarchate of Rome was Orthodox and fully in communion with the Orthodox Church. As Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco +1966 said "The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable Liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."
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