Dr. John (Ellsworth) Hutchison-Hall

Eastern Orthodox Christian theologian, historian, philosopher, and cultural commentator.

            

Orthodox Saints of the Pre-Schism See of Rome

ATTALAS, a native of Burgundy, who received monastic tonsure at the Abbey of Our Lady of Lérins (abbaye Notre Dame de Lérins). St. Attalas joined St. Columbanus (23rd November) when he left Lérins for the Abbey of SS. Peter and Paul of Luxeuil (abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Luxeuil), and later to Bobbio, assisting St. Columbanus in the founding of what came to be called the Abbey of St. Columbanus (Abbazia di San Colombano). Following St. Columbanus’ repose in 615, St. Attalas succeeded him as Abbot serving until his repose in 627.

DROCTOVEUS (DROTTÉ), a disciple of St. Germanus of Paris (28th May), who became Abbot of St. Symphorian Abbey (abbaye Saint-Symphorien d'Autun) in Autun, Burgundy. After his elevation to the Episcopacy, St. Germanus appointed St. Droctoveus first Abbot of the Abbey of St. Vincent and the Holy Cross (abbaye saint Vincent et de la sainte Croix), which was later renamed Saint-Germain-des-Prés in present-day Paris' 6th arrondissement. St. Droctoveus reposed circa 580.

EMILIAN (EMINIAN), an Irishman who received monastic tonsure at, and later was Abbot of, the Abbey of St. Peter (abbaye Saint-Pierre de Lagny) in Lagny-sur-Marne, near Paris. St. Emilian reposed in 675.

FAILBHE the LITTLE, Abbot of Iona for seven years, he reposed in 754 at the age of eighty. No further information on this saint is extant.

HIMELIN, was a priest, most likely Irish, who reposed at Vissenaeken near Tirlemont in Flanders circa 750, as he was returning from a pilgrimage to Rome.

KESSOG (MACKESSOG), St. Kessog is said to have been an Irish prince from Cashel in Tipperary who, even as a child, is said to have worked miracles. St. Kessog left Ireland and became a missionary bishop in Scotland, where he evangelised the Lennox and Southern Perthshire areas until he was martyred circa 560. According to one legend, his martyrdom took place at Bandry, where there was a heap of stones which came to be known as St. Kessog’s Cairn.

SEDNA, St. Sedna was a Bishop of Ossory and Abbot of Seir-Kieran Abbey, both in Ireland. He reposed circa 570. There is no further information on his life extant.

SILVESTER, a companion of St. Palladius (7th July) in his mission to Ireland. St. Silvester is believed to have reposed circa 420. No further information on this saint is extant.

SIMPLICIUS, the forty-seventh Pope of Rome, St. Simplicius served as Pope from 468 until his repose in 483. While Pope, St. Simplicius was a tenacious defender of the condemnation of the heresy of Monophysitism by the Council of Chalcedon. He also helped the people of Rome as they faced barbarian invaders.

VICTOR, (Date Unknown), a martyr in North Africa during the Decian Persecution. Some martyrologies list several companions, though nothing certain is known.

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.