Orthodox Western Saints for Today

Pre-Schism Saints of the Orthodox Roman Patriarchate*
16 November (3 November O.S.):

• ACHERIC AND WILLIAM, Hermits at a monastery in the Vosges, they reposed circa 860.
• CLETHER (CLEDOG, CLODOCK), a sixth century hermit in Herefordshire, now in England. The village of Clodock is named after him.
• CRISTIOLUS, brother of St. Sulian (29th July) and founder of churches in Wales, including one in Anglesey.
• DOMNUS OF VIENNE, the successor of St. Desiderius the Martyr (11th February) as bishop of Vienne, and was famed for ransoming the captives of war. He reposed in 657.
• ELERIUS, a sixth century abbot of a monastery in the north of Wales.
• ENGLATIUS (ENGLAT, TANGLEN), he may have been a bishop and lived in Tarves in Aberdeenshire, reposing in 966.
• FLORUS (FLOUR) OF LODÈVE, the first Bishop of Lodève in Languedoc. He reposed in 389 and his relics are enshrined in Saint-Flour, France, which is named after him.
• GAUDIOSUS OF TARAZONA, a monk in Asan in the Pyrenees under St. Victorian (12th January). About 530 he became Bishop of Tarazona, reposing, it is commonly believed circa 585.
• GUENHAEL, a Breton who became a monk at Landevennec with St Winwalöe (3rd March), later serving as its abbot and reposing circa 550.
• HERMENGAUDIUS (ARMENGOL), the bishop of Urgell in Catalonia from 1010 until his repose in 1035. He was responsible for the building of the Cathedral there.
• HUBERT, said to have been a widowed nobleman of Aquitaine, employed at the Court of Pepin of Heristal. He had a conversion experience whilst hunting, after which he devoted his life to the Faith, in all likelihood becoming a monk at Stavelot. He was the successor to St. Lambert (17th September) as Bishop of Maastricht circa 706, serving that See until his repose in 727.
• PAPULIUS (PAPOUL), a priest who worked with St. Saturninus (30th October) in southern Gaul; and like him was martyred under Diocletian circa 300. His shrine is in Toulouse.
• PIRMIN, a native of Spain most likely of Visigoth ancestry. Fleeing Spain during the Saracen invation he settled in the Rhineland where he established several monasteries — including Reichenau, Murbach, and Amorbach; and restored others most notably Dissentis. He seems to have been bishop of Meaux as well. He retired to Hornbach Abbey where he reposed in 753.
• RUMWOLD, believed to have been born near King's Sutton in Northamptonshire of royal parentage, Rumwold was a three-day old infant, who spoke from birth requesting baptism and upon receiving the sacrament reposed circa 650.
• SARAGOSSA, THE INNUMERABLE MARTYRS, an exceedingly large number of martyrs put to death in 304 under Diocletian by the savage prefect Dacian. Dacian issued an edict exiling all Orthodox from Saragossa, and then ordered the soldiers to massacre the fleeing Christians. Eighteen of them are honoured separately on 16th April.
• SYLVIA, the mother of St Gregory the Great (3rd September). She reposed circa 572 and there was a chapel built in her honour over her house on the Coelian Hill in Rome.
• VALENTINE AND HILARY, a priest and his deacon who were beheaded at Viterbo near Rome under Diocletian circa 304.
• VALENTINIAN, a bishop of Salerno who reposed circa 500.
• VULGANIUS, a Celt who enlightened the Atrebati and ended his life as a hermit in Arras where he reposed circa 704.

• WINEFRED, born in Wales in the seventh century, she was a niece of St. Beuno (21st April). Beheaded by a prince for refusing his advances, a spring gushed forth where her head had fallen which was the origin of her holy well which has been a centre of pilgrimage ever since.






• WULGAN, a holy man believed to have been born in Canterbury in the eighth century, though he died a holy death in Arras.

* - 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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