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Orthodox Saints of the Pre-Schism
See of Rome
23rd January (NS) — 10th January (OS) 2024

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10th January (OS)

AGATHO, Pope of Rome from 678 until his repose in 681. Originally from Sicily, St. Agatho was a businessman for most of his life, who then received monastic tonsure, and prior to his election to the papacy he was the treasurer of the church of Rome. St. Agatho was elected seventy-ninth Pope of Rome in 678. As Pope, St. Agatho worked to resolve the conflict between SS. Wilfrid (12th October) and Theodore (19th September) over the boundaries of the See of York. He also fought against the Monothelite heresy, and his writings played a crucial role in formulating the decision of the Sixth Œcumenical Council in Constantinople in 680 against Monothelitism. St. Agatho reposed in 681.

ARCONTIUS, (Eighth or Ninth Century), a Bishop of Viviers who, local legend states, was beheaded by a mob of Viviers’ citizens. His feast is observed in the Diocese of Viviers on 19th January.

DERMOT (DIARMIS, DIARMAID), (sixth century), Known from his earliest years for his sanctity, he was the spiritual father and teacher of St. Kieran of Clonmacnoise (9th September). St. Dermot went on to found, and serve as first abbot of a monastery on Innis-Clotran Island (Inchcleraun), Co. Longford Ireland.

JOHN CAMILLUS the GOOD, consecrated thirty-seventh Bishop of Milan in 641, St. John Camillus was the first Bishop of Milan in eighty years able to reside in Milan following the Lombard invasion. He was an indefatigable defender of orthodoxy against the heresies of Arianism and Monothelitism. St. John Camillus reposed circa 660.

PETER ORSEOLO (URSEOLUS), a Venetian who served as Admiral of the Venetian fleet and then Doge of Venice. After two years as Doge he abandoned the world and entered the Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa in the Pyrenees, where he received monastic tonsure. There he was a disciple of St. Romuald (19th June), who ultimately advised St. Peter to live as a hermit, which he did, until his repose in 987.

PETRONIUS, born in Avignon, St. Petronius received monastic tonsure at Lérins Abbey, and finally served as second (or possibly third) Bishop of Die from circa 456 until his repose circa 463.

SETHRID (SÆTHRYTH), a stepdaughter of Anna, King of East Anglia, and half-sister of SS. Etheldred (Audrey) (23rd June) and Ethelburgh (7th July). St. Sethrid received monastic tonsure at the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Faremoutiers under St. Burgundofara (3rd April), whom she succeeded as abbess. St. Sethrid reposed circa 660.

THOMIAN (TÓMMÉNE, TOIMEN), St. Thomian was the seventeenth Archbishop of Armagh, from circa 623 until his repose circa 660. Always renowned for his great sanctity of life, he is also remembered for a letter he and several of his fellow bishops in Ulster wrote to Rome seeking the Pope's advice on the Paschal Controversy.

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23rd January (NS)

AMASIUS, a cleric, generally said to have been Greek, who was forced into exile by the Arians, and settled in Campania. Following the repose of St. Paris (5th August) in 346, St. Amasius was appointed to succeed him in the See of Teano in Campania. He reposed in 356.

COLMAN of LISMORE, Abbot-Bishop of Lismore Co. Waterford. During St. Colman’s tenure as abbot, Lismore grew in fame, attracting a great number of disciples. St. Colman was the spiritual father of numerous holy men and illustrious prelates, and reposed in 702.

EMERENTIANA, a catechumen and foster-sister of St. Agnes (21st January). St. Emerentiana was found by a pagan mob praying at St. Agnes' tomb, who then beat her to death.

ILDEPHONSUS, a member of the Spanish nobility, nephew of St. Eugene of Toledo (13th November), and student of St. Isidore of Seville (4th April). St. Ildephonsus received monastic tonsure at, and later served as Abbot of, the Monastery of Agali near Toledo. St. Ildephonsus attended both the Eighth and Ninth Councils of Toledo in 653 and 655 respectively, and in 657 was consecrated Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo. A prolific and important writer, St. Ildephonsus' most significant work was De perpetua virginitate Mariae contra tres infidels, based upon St. Jerome's (30th September) earlier writings on the topic. St. Ildephonsus reposed at Toledo in 667.

LUFTHILD, known for her kindness to the poor, St. Lufthild lived from an early age as an anchoress in and around Cologne. She reposed circa 850.

MAIMBOD, an Irish itinerate missionary, who, whilst on pilgrimages throughout Gaul, preached the Gospels. There are two versions of his death, the first, which is supported by both the Acta Sanctorum and the noted hagiographer and historian John Colgan O.F.M. (†c. 1657), is St. Maimbod was given a pair of gloves by a nobleman in the hopes that St. Maimbod would remember him in his prayers. Whilst at prayer one day, a band of robbers seeing the gloves and assuming them to be an indication of wealth, beat him to death in the hopes of finding money and other valuables. The second version of his death is that he was martyred by pagans whilst preaching. Both of these events are said to have taken place in Alsace circa 880.

MARTYRIUS (MARTORY), (Sixth Century), a hermit in the Valeria, present-day Abruzzi, Italy. St. Gregory the Dialogist (3rd September) wrote of his virtue, and miracles which came from St. Martyrius' prayers.

ORMOND (ARMAND), (Sixth Century), Abbot of the Abbey of Saint Mairé in present-day France, and supporter of monastic expansion and evangelisation.

SEVERIAN and AQUILA, (Date Unknown), two martyrs in Mauretania Caesariensis, North Africa. Though listed in all of the old martyrologies, nothing more is known of them.

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”.

Details of British Saints excerpted from Orthodox Saints of the British Isles.
Details of continental saints from these sources.

In many cases there are several spelling versions of the names of saints from the British Isles. I use the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography version as the primary version with the more prevalent version in parenthesis e.g. Ceadda (Chad) of Lichfield.