Orthodox Western Saints for Today

Pre-Schism Saints of the Orthodox Roman Patriarchate*
2 December (19 November O.S.):

• ANASTASIUS II (also 8th September), Pope of Rome from 496 until his repose in 498.
• ATTO, the first Abbot of Tordino near Teramo who reposed circa 1010
• CRISPIN, a fourth century bishop of Ecija in Andalusia who was beheaded under Maximian Herculeus.
• ERMENBURGH, also known as Domna Ebba (Lady Ebba, shortened to Domneva). A Kentish princess married to the King of Mercia, and the mother of Sts Mildred (13th July), Milburgh (23rd February) and Mildgytha (17th January). She was the founder of the convent of Minster-in-Thanet and reposed circa 700.
• JAMES OF SASSEAU, a native of Constantinople, who, after extensive travel, came to France, where he was ordained in Clermont and later lived as a hermit in Sasseau. He reposed circa 865.
• MAXIMUS, a martyr in Rome under Valerian circa 255.
• MEDANA, an eighth century holy virgin from Ireland who went to Scotland and lived in Galloway.
• SEVERINUS, EXUPERIUS AND FELICIAN, martyrs in Vienne under Marcus Aurelius in 170.
• TUTO (TOTTO), the founder in 764 of the monastery of Ottobeuren in Bavaria who reposed in 815.

* - 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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