
Orthodox Saints of the Pre-Schism
See of Rome
18th November (NS) — 5th November (OS) 2024
AUGUSTINE of TERRACINA and PAULINUS of TERRACINA, (Sixth Century), two monks whom St. Benedict of Nursia (21st March) charged with the founding of a monastery at Terracina in the present-day province of Latina, Italy.
BERTILLE (BERTILLA), St. Bertille received monastic tonsure at the Abbey of Our Lady of Jouarre (abbaye Notre-Dame de Jouarre) in Jouarre (north-central France), and later served as the first Abbess of the re-founded Abbey of Our Lady of Chelles (abbaye Notre-Dame-des-Chelles) just east of Paris. She served as abbess from 646 until her repose circa 703.
DOMINATOR of BRESCIA, a late fifth century Bishop of Brescia in Lombardy (northern Italy). St. Dominator reposed circa 495.
FELIX of TERRACINA and EUSEBIUS of TERRACINA, two first century martyrs at Terracina in the present-day province of Latina, Italy.
FIBITIUS, there are no verifiable details of St. Fibitius extant. Some sources list him as the abbot of an unnamed monastery in Trier, others as Bishop of Trier. St. Fibitius reposed circa 500.
HERMENEGILD, a monk at an abbey in the Diocese of Tui in Galatia (north-western Spain). St. Hermenegild assisted St. Rudesind (1st March) building abbeys and monasteries throughout Galatia. He reposed in 586.
KANTEN (CANNEN), (Eighth Century), the founder of Llanganten Abbey near Cilmery in Powys, Wales. There is no further information on his life extant.
KEA (KAY, KENAN), (Sixth Century), what little is known of St. Kea's life comes from a seventeenth-century précis of a now lost Latin hagiography, and an incomplete sixteenth-century Cornish language play that was lost until 2000. Hence any details of his life should be viewed with scepticism.
The extant documents relate that St. Kea was the son of King Lleuddun Luyddog of Lothian and was a bishop in north Britain before becoming a hermit. Traveling first to Wales, St. Kea then headed south, founding churches at Street in Somerset, and Landkey Devonshire. St. Kea finally settled at what is today Kea in Cornwall, which takes its name from him. He is also believed to have spent some time in Brittany, where he is venerated as St. Quay, and may have reposed there.
Troparion of St. Kea — Tone I
Thou wast unsparing in thy missionary labours/
in Brittany and Cornwall, O Hierarch Kea./
As thou didst make the flame of the Orthodox Faith/
burn brightly in the face of defiant paganism,/
pray to God for us, that we devote our lives to confronting the paganism of our times/
for the glory of Christ's Kingdom and the salvation of men's souls.
LAETUS (LIÉ, LYÉ) of ORLÉANS, according to pious legend, St. Laetus received monastic tonsure at the age of twelve at an unknown monastery near Orléans (north-central France). Some sources state St. Leonard of Noblac (6th November) was one of his disciples. St. Laetus reposed circa 533, and his relics were enshrined at Saint-Lyé-la-Forêt, which takes its name from him.
MAGNUS of MILAN, Archbishop of Milan from circa 520 until his repose in 525. The Roman Martyrology calls him a confessor. His cultus seems to have begun not long after his repose. This is the limit of what is known of St. Magnus.
SPINULUS (SPINULA, SPIN) of MOYENMOUTIER, a disciple of St. Hidulf (11th July) at his abbey in Moyenmoutier (north-eastern France). St. Spinulus reposed in either 707 or 720.
AMANDUS and ANSELM, Abbots of the Abbey of Our Lady of Lérins. St. Amandus reposed in 708, and St. Anselm circa 750.
CONSTANT, an anchorite priest at Lough Erne in Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Various sources state that he was either a martyr or confessor, though no supporting information is extant. He is reputed to have worked many miracles, though again the details are missing. St. Constant reposed 777.
KEVERNE, (Sixth Century), Nothing is known of the life of St. Keverne beyond his friendship with St. Piran of Cornwall (5th March). Some sources speculate they may even be the same person.

Reliquary of St. Maudez in the collection the Musée départemental breton de Quimper.
Photo by Moreau.henri (Own work)
[CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
MAUDEZ (MAUDÉ, MODEZ, MAWES), (Sixth Century), a hermit in what is now St Mawes, in Cornwall. St. Maudez emigrated to Brittany where he, along with SS. Budoc of Brittany (8th December) and Tudwal (30th November), founded a monastery. There are in excess of sixty churches dedicated to St. Maudez in Brittany.
MAXIMUS of MAINZ, consecrated the nineteenth Bishop of Mainz in 354. During his episcopacy St. Maximus faced almost constant attack from Arians within his See, until he reposed from exhaustion in 378.
MUMMOLUS (MUMBOLUS, MOMLEOLUS, MOMBLE), an Irishman who succeded his friend, St. Fursey (16th January), as Abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Lagny. St. Mummolus reposed circa 690.
NAZARIUS, a mid-fifth century Abbot of the Abbey of Our Lady of Lérins.
ORICULUS and COMPANIONS, a group of orthodox Christians in Africa Proconsularis, martyred by Arian Vandals circa 430. No further details are 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.