Orthodox Saints of the Pre-Schism
See of Rome
29th December (NS) — 16th December (OS) 2024
ADELAIDE (ADELHEID), a Burgundian princess wed to King Lothaire of Italy. Following the death of Lothaire, St. Adelaide married Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, who also predeceased her. As Dowager Empress, she served as regent for the child Otto III, and was of great service to both Church and State. Towards the end of her life St. Adelaide retired to a monastery in Alsace, where she reposed in 999.
ADO, a Burgundian noble who was educated, then received monastic tonsure at the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul of Ferrières, in present-day Ferrières-en-Gâtinais, Loire, France. He was given the obedience of teaching at Prüm Abbey in Lorraine. After leaving Prüm, St. Ado spent several years in Rome and Ravenna, during which time he published a Roman Martyrology. In 859 St. Ado was consecrated fifty-second Bishop of Vienne, serving that See until he reposed in 875.
BEOC (BEANUS, DABEOC, MOBEOC), (Fifth or Sixth Century), information on his life is rather vague, but according to tradition he was a disciple of St. Patrick (17th March) who was placed in charge of St. Patrick's Purgatory, an ancient pilgrimage site on Station Island in Lough Derg, where he also founded a monastery.
MARTYRS of NORTH-WEST AFRICA, a group of women probably numbering one or two hundred martyred during the persecutions under the Arian Huneric, King of the Vandals (r. 477–484) in 482.
MARTYRS of RAVENNA (VALENTINE, CONCORDIUS, NAVALIS and AGRICOLA), (Early Third Century), a group of martyrs at Ravenna, of whom nothing further is known than these four names.
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ALBERT of GAMBRON, (Seventh Century), a courtier disillusioned with the emptiness of court life, who became a hermit. He later founded and served as first Abbot of the small Abbey of Gambron-sur-l'Authion.
CALLISTUS, FELIX, and BONIFACE, (Date Unknown), though listed in all major martyrologies as martyrs in Rome, nothing is known of their lives or the dates they flourished.
DOMINIC, VICTOR, PRIMIAN, LYBOSUS, SATURNINUS, CRESCENTIUS, SECUNDUS, and HONORATUS, (Date Unknown), another group of martyrs in North Africa, of whom there is no information extant.
EBRULFUS (EVROULT), a married courtier at the Court of King Childebert III, St. Ebrulfus left Court, made financial provisions for his wife, and entered the Abbaye of Saint-Martin des Deux-Jumeaux in Normandy. St. Later he and some of the other monks left the Abbey to live as hermits in the neighbouring Ouche Forest. St. Ebrulfus reposed in 706.
GIRALD (GIRARD, GIRAUD), having received monastic tonsure at the Abbey of St. Peter of Lagny, St. Girald was selected to serve as Abbot of Saint-Arnoult (Abbey of the Holy Apostles) in Metz. Later he was appointed Abbot of the Abbey of St Wandrille (Fontenelle Abbey) in Normandy, where his reforms were so unpopular that he was murdered in 1031, by one of the monks.
TROPHIMUS, sent from Rome circa 250 to evangelise the Gauls, St. Trophimus worked with SS. Saturninus of Toulouse (29th November) and Dionysius of Paris (9th October), and served as the first Bishop of Arles, he reposed circa 280.
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.