Dr. John (Ellsworth) Hutchison-Hall

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

            

Orthodox Saints of the Pre-Schism See of Rome

DAMHNADE, (Date Uncertain), St. Damhnade was a holy virgin who was greatly venerated in Counties Cavan and Fermanagh in Ireland. Nothing is really known of her life or the dates she flourished, though without support, the noted hagiographer and historian John Colgan O.F.M. (†c. 1657) identifies her as being St. Dymphna (15th May) of Gheel near Antwerp in present-day Belgium. The Félire Óengusso, also without support, claims she was a sister of St. Fursey (16th January).

FANDILAS of PEÑAMELARIA, one of the forty-eight martyrs of Córdoba (850–859). St. Fandilas was Abbot of the monastery of San Salvador (Peña Melaria) near Córdoba, and in 853 was beheaded in Cordoba by order of the Emir Muhammad I of Córdoba (r. 852–886) for publicly displaying his faith in the presence of Muslims, which was considered blasphemy by the Muslim conquerors.

FELICULA of ROME, a Roman maiden martyred circa 90 for refusing to marry a pagan during the reign of Emperor Domitian (r. 81–96). St. Felicula was imprisoned for a fortnight without food or water, then racked, and left in a ditch to die.

FORTUNATUS and LUCIAN of NORTH AFRICA, (Date Unknown), martyrs in North Africa. There may have been six or more Christians martyred with them.

PEREGRINUS (CETHEUS), believed to have been a late fifth century bishop in the Abruzzi (Italy), and said to have been drowned in the River Aterno by Arian Lombards after interceding on behalf of a condemned prisoner.

RAMBERT (RAGNEBERT, RAGNOBERT), a courtier to Theodoric III, King of Neustria and Burgundy (r. 656–690/1), whose death was ordered by the tyrannical Mayor of the Palace of Neustria, Ebron (†680/1). St. Rambert was ambushed in the Jura mountains and murdered circa 680, and has since been honoured as a martyr.

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.