Orthodox Western Saints for Today

Pre-Schism Saints of the Orthodox Roman Patriarchate*
3 December (20 November O.S.):

• AMPELUS AND GAIUS, martyrs in Messina in Sicily under Diocletian circa 302.
• AUTBODUS, an Irishman who preached in Artois, Hainault and Picardy. He reposed as a hermit near Laon in 690.
• BENIGNUS, an Archbishop of Milan who reposed circa 477.
• BERNWARD (BERWARD), a late tenth century bishop of Hildesheim, who excelled as an architect, painter, sculptor, decorator and metalsmith. He also served as a tutor of the half-Greek Emperor Otto III, and reposed in 1022.











• EDMUND, King of East Anglia and first patron-saint of England. In 869 he was taken prisoner by the heathen Danes and savagely martyred at Hoxne in Suffolk, dying with the name of Jesus on his lips. Bury St Edmunds was named after him.







• EUDO (EUDON, EUDES ODO), a monk at Lérins, who founded the monastery of Corméry-en-Velay (Charmillac, later called Saint-Chaffre). He reposed circa 760.
• EVAL (UVOL, URFOL), a sixth century bishop in Cornwall. A village there is called after him.
• LEO OF NONANTULA, a monk and abbot of the monastery of Nonantula near Modena who reposed in 1000.
• MAXENTIA, a native of Ireland who became an anchoress near Senlis in Picardie, where she was put to death at the place now called Pont-Sainte-Maxence.
• OCTAVIUS, SOLUTOR AND ADVENTOR, Patron-saints of Turin, where they were martyred in 297.
• SILVESTER, bishop of Châlons-sur-Saône from circa 484 until his repose circa 525. He was described as 'the glory of confessors' by St. Gregory of Tours (17th November).
• SIMPLICIUS OF VERONA, a bishop of Verona who reposed circa 535.

* - 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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