Orthodox Western Saints for Today

Pre-Schism Saints of the Orthodox Roman Patriarchate*
24 October (11 October O.S.):

• AGILBERT (AGLIBERT), a monk at Jouarre in France with Abbot Ado. He went to England and preached in Wessex. Returning to France, he was consecrated Bishop of Paris. He reposed circa 685 and was buried at Jouarre, where his tomb is still preserved.
• ANSILIO, a late seventh century monk whose relics were enshrined at the monastery of Lagny in the north of France.
• BRUNO, also known as 'the Great', he was consecrated Bishop of Cologne in 953 and reposed circa 965.
• EMILIAN, tradionally thought to have been a hermit in Rennes in Brittany.
• ETHELBURGH (ETHELBURGA), sister of St. Erconwald of London (30th April), who helped found the convent of Barking in Essex eventually becoming abbess there. She reposed circa 675
• EUFRIDUS, a seventh century monk near Asti, whose relics were venerated in the Cathedral of Alba in Piedmont.
• FIRMINUS OF UZÈS, a native of Narbonne in southern Gaul, who served as Bishop of Uzès, reposing in 553.
• GERMANUS OF BESANÇON, a bishop of Besançon in Gaul who most likely was martyred by Arians circa 390.
• GRATUS, the first bishop of Oloron in Aquitaine, it is believed he took part in the Council of Agde in 506 reposing later that year.
• GUMMARUS (GOMER), after a trying life in the world he became a hermit in the area that is now the town of Lierre (Lier) in Belgium, which grew up around his hermitage, reposing circa 774.
• JULIANA OF PAVILLY, a servant girl who became a nun and later served as abbess at Pavilly in Normandy reposing circa 750.
• KENNETH (CANICE, CAINNECH, KENNY), an Irishman who was a disciple of St Finian of Clonard and St Cadoc in Wales. He was the founder of the monastery of Agahaboe and perhaps of Kilkenny, which is named after him. He later preached in Scotland where he was built the first church in the place now known as St Andrews. He reposed circa 599
• PLACIDIA, a holy virgin venerated in Verona who reposed circa 460.

* - 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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