Dr. John (Ellsworth) Hutchison-Hall

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

            

Orthodox Saints of the Pre-Schism See of Rome

HILARY (HILARUS), 46th Pope of Rome, prior to his election to the Patriarchate of Rome, St. Hilary served as an aide to Pope St. Leo the Great (10th November), Papal Legate at the Robber Council of Ephesus in 449, worked on updating the method of calculating Pascha. Following the repose of St. Leo the Great in 461, St. Hilary was elected his successor. As Pope, he fought the Christological heresies of Nestorianism and Arianism, held several councils at Rome, his council of 465 is the earliest Roman council whose records are extant, and continued St. Leo the Great’s policy of strengthening papal authority in Gaul and Hispania. St. Hilary reposed in 468.

LLIBIO, (Sixth Century) St. Llibio is the patron saint of Llanlibio in the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn) off the north-west coast of Wales. According to Church of England priest, hagiographer, and all round scholar Sabine Baring Baring-Gould (†1924) he was one of the sons of Seithenin, who, along with his brothers, joined Dwnawd’s monastery at Bangor after the flooding of the Plain of Gwyddno.

MACARIUS, RUFINUS, JUSTUS, and THEOPHILUS, a group of potters martyred during the Decian Persecution, circa 250.

MAIDOC (MADOC), there is no definitive information on this saint extent, though it is most likely he is the sixth century bishop (or perhaps only abbot), after whom Llanmadog in Glamorganshire is called.

OSWALD of WORCESTER, (in leap years 29th February), the nephew of St. Oda of Canterbury (2nd June) under whom he began his studies. St. Oswald later went to the Abbey of St. Benedict on the Loire (abbaye de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire — Fleury Abbey) to continue his studies and receive monastic tonsure, and ultimately, ordination to the priesthood. Returning to England, St. Oswald was consecrated Bishop of Worcester, and worked with SS. Dunstan (19th May) and Æthelwold (1st August), with enormous success, to revive monastic life, and religious discipline in Anglo-Saxon England. He personally founded monasteries at Ramsey and Worcester, and was subsequently promoted to the Archbishopric of York (972). St. Oswald reposed whilst on his knees engaged in his daily practice of washing the feet of twelve poor people, circa 990.

ROMANUS of CONDAT, at the age of thirty-five he went to live as a hermit in the Jura mountains, where he was followed by his brother St. Lupicinus (21st March). As was so often the case, St. Romanus attracted many disciples for which he founded the Abbey of St. Claude (abbaye de Saint-Claude) at Condat and Leuconne (present-day Saint-Lupicin, serving as joint Abbot, as well as a third one at near-by La Beaume where their sister was abbess. St. Romanus reposed circa 460.

RUELLINUS (RUELLIN), a sixth century Bishop of Tréguier in Brittany.

SILLAN (SILVANUS), a disciple of St. Comgall (10th May) at Bangor in Co. Down, and one of his successors there as abbot. Although there is no further certain knowledge of him, he seems to have had a great reputation for sanctity. Various sources have placed the year of his repose as either 606 or 610.

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.