Orthodox Saints of the Pre-Schism
See of Rome
28th December (NS) — 15th December (OS) 2024
ADALBERO, following studies at Gorze Abbey, near Metz in Lorraine, St. Adalbero was consecrated Bishop of Verdun in 984. However, later that same year he was translated to Metz where he served as bishop until his repose in 1005. As Bishop of Metz, St. Adalbero founded several monasteries in his diocese and assisted in the restoration of Gorze Abbey.
FAUSTINUS, LUCIUS, CANDIDUS, CAELIAN, MARK, JANUARIUS, and FORTUNATUS, (Date Unknown), a group martyrs in North Africa, who although listed in all the early martyrologies, nothing is known.
FLORENTIUS (FLANN), (Seventh Century), an Abbot of Bangor, Co. Down, Ulster during the seventh century Nothing is known about his life other than his reputation for zeal and piety.
MAXIMINUS (MESMIN), co-founder, with King Clovis, and first Abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Mesmin, Micy near Orléans. St. Maximinus reposed 520.
OFFA, a King of Essex who abdicated his throne to become a monk at Rome. He reposed circa 709.
URBITIUS (ÚRBEZ), a Frankish monk captured by Saracens, w-ho managed to escape and spent the rest of his life as a hermit in the Pyrenees Mountains. St. Urbitius reposed circa 805.
VALERIAN, a Bishop of Abbenza in North Africa who was martyred by Arian Vandals in 457 for refusing to surrender sacred vessels.
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ANTONY of LÉRINS, a native of Lower Pannonia, who spent most of his adult life as a hermit near Lake Como in Lombardy. Unfortunately, he and some of the nearby hermits, attracted a large number of disciples and St. Antony fled to Lérins where he spent the last two years as a hermit, reposing circa 520.
CASTOR, VICTOR, and ROGATIAN, (Date Unknown), three martyrs in North Africa of whom nothing further is known.
DOMNIO, (Fourth Century), a priest in Rome, who also collected old texts many of which were used by St. Jerome (30th September) as source materials.
MAUGHOLD (MACCALDUS) of MAN, according to tradition St. Maughold of Man was an Irish bandit who was converted to Christianity by St. Patrick (17th March). St. Maughold was then sent to the Isle of Man where he lived as a hermit for a time before he was selected by the Manx people to succeed SS. Romulus and Conindrus (vide infra) as bishop. He is remembered as having had a very fruitful episcopate. St Maughold reposed circa 488, and is the Patron Saint of the Isle of Man. St. Maughold is commemorated on the calendar of the Moscow Patriarchate on 27th April.
ROMULUS and CONINDRUS, contemporaries of St. Patrick (17th March), SS. Romulus and Conindrus were two of the first evangelise the Isle of Man. They were undoubtedly bishops, and it is possible they were sent to the Isle of Man by St. Patrick, and later returned to Ireland to assist in its conversion, however there are no particulars of their lives extant. SS. Romulus and Conindrus reposed circa 450.
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.