Dr. John (Ellsworth) Hutchison-Hall

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

            

Orthodox Saints of the Pre-Schism See of Rome

BONIFACE of TARSUS, St. Boniface left his native Rome and travelled to Tarsus in Cilicia (present-day Mersin, Turkey), to retrieve relics. Unfortunately, St. Boniface was martyred in Cilicia circa 307.

BONIFACE of FERENTINO, (Sixth Century), Bishop of Ferentino in Tuscany (Italy) during the reign of Emperor Justin (r. 518–527). St. Gregory the Dialogist (3rd September) wrote of his holiness.

CARTHAGE (CARTHACH MOCHUDA) the YOUNGER, born in Kerry in Ireland with the name Mochuda, he became a disciple and foster-son of St. Carthage the Elder (5th March), hence being remembered as St. Carthage the Younger. He spent several years as a hermit, and then as a monk at Bangor (Bennchor) Abbey in Co. Down, Ireland under St. Comgall (10th May) for about a year. St. Carthage then founded a monastery at Rathin in Co. Westmeath where he soon presided over one thousand monks. Political intrigue led to his community’s expulsion from Rathin (circa 685), and he and his monks settled on the banks of the River Blackwater in Co. Waterford. This new establishment grew into the famous Abbey and Bishopric of Lismore, though St. Carthage reposed circa 637 roughly eighteen months after its founding.

ÉREMBERT of TOULOUSE, St. Érembert received monastic tonsure at the Abbey of St. Peter / abbaye Saint-Pierre (later the Abbey of St. Wandrille / abbaye Saint-Wandrille) in Fontenelle, Normandy (France) circa 640. According to almost all sources, St. Érembert was appointed Bishop of Toulouse in 656 by Clotaire III. However, since Clotaire didn't assume the throne until 658, either St. Érembert was appointed to the See of Toulouse after 658, or Clotaire's predecessor, Clovis II, King of Neustria and Burgundy (r. 639–657) appointed St Érembert to the See of Toulouse. St. Érembert resigned his See in 668, returning to Fontenelle where he spent the rest of his life as a simple monk, reposing circa 672.

HALLVARD (HALWARD) of OSLO, a member of the Norwegian royal family, St. Hallvard was killed with an arrow shot, in retaliation for helping a woman claiming to have been falsely accused of theft and who was being chased by a mob. After killing St. Hallvard, one of the mob then shot the woman who had sought his protection (circa 1043). A stone was tied around St. Hallvard’s neck and he was thrown into the sea, but he floated. St. Hallvard has since been venerated as a martyr because he died protecting the innocent.

JUSTA, JUSTINA, and HENEDINA of SARDINIA, three Christian women (possibly sisters) who were martyred circa 130 in Sardinia during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (r. 117–138).

PONTIUS of CIMIEZ, martyred during the reign of Emperors Valerian and his son Gallienus (r. 253–268). The exact date is unknown, though most sources place it around 258. His martyrdom took place in Cimiez, a neighbourhood in present-day Nice, France. His relics were enshrined in the village of Saint-Pons (named in his honour) 80 km / 50 mi north of Nice.

TUTO (TOTTO), a monk at St. Emmeram's Abbey in Regensburg, Bavaria (Germany). St. Tuto was consecrated ninth Bishop of Regensburg, and Abbot ex officio of St. Emmeram's 894. He remained Bishop until his repose in 930.

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.