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Sainthood in the Orthodox Church does not necessarily reflect a moral model, but communion with God; there are many examples of people who lived in great sin and became saints by humility and repentance: Saints Mary of Egypt, Moses the Ethiopian, and Dismas, the repentant thief who was crucified with Jesus Christ. Therefore, a more complete ...
New-martyr or Neo-martyr: a martyr, often sharing a name with an earlier one, who was martyred during the Ottoman persecutions [31] and onwards [32] (e.g. St. Mary of Paris) [33] Panagia: literally meaning 'all-holy' in Greek; [34] the title is only given to the Virgin Mary, referring to her position as the holiest of all saints [35]
This list of saints in the Russian Orthodox Church includes only people canonized as saints by the Russian Orthodox Church, or the preceding Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus'. Saints are sorted by their first names. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow canonised a total of 39 saints at two Church councils held in 1547 and 1549, and later added 8 more ...
Set of pictures for a number of famous Eastern Orthodox Christians from various fields. This is primarily a list of notable people who contributed to the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity's theology or culture. However it is also for people whose Eastern Orthodox identity is an important part of their notability.
Olga of Alaska, wife of Nicolai Michael, an Eastern Orthodox priest, in Kwethluk; Peter the Aleut, protomartyr of America; Raphael of Brooklyn, founder of the Antiochian Orthodox Mission in America; Sebastian Dabovich, first American-born Orthodox priest of Jackson, California
It lists of hundreds of saints from Ireland and beyond. [1] In various religions, a saint is a revered person who has achieved an eminent status of holiness, known as sainthood. The word saint comes from the Latin word sanctus, meaning ' holy ', and although saint has been applied in other religious contexts, the word has its origins in ...
Over the history of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the church has had many people who were venerated to sainthood. The list below contains some of those saints and their feast days. Saint Sava I, fresco in the King's Church, Studenica Monastery, Serbia. Saint Jovan Vladimir, Serbian Orthodox icon Saint Stefan Uroš, fresco
The following is a list of saints commemorated by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. The majority of saints are from Egypt , with the majority venerated in all of Christianity. Contents: