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*253 Hieromartyr [[Babylas of Antioch|Babylas]], Bp. of Antioch beheaded [[September 4]].
*254 [[Origen]] dies in Tyre from consequences of imprisonment during Decian persecutions.
*255 ''Conflict between [[Cyprian of Carthage]] and [[StephenI of Rome|Stephen]], Bp. of Rome on baptism administration by heretics.''
; Date unknown
====257-260 (8th) Persecution of Christians under Emperor Valerian (253-260)====
*257 [[StephenI of Rome|Stephen]], Bp. of Rome, dies, perhaps martyred; [[Novatian ]] martyred during persecution under Valerian.
*258
** Roman soldier Romanus baptised by Martyr [[Lawrence of Rome|Laurence]], and immediately beheaded [[August 9]].
** Roman Martyr [[Lawrence of Rome|Laurence]], Archdeacon, d. [[August 10]]
** Roman Martyrs Pope [[Sixtus II of Rome|Xystus II (Sixtus)]], Deacon Felicissimus, and Deacon Agapitus, d. [[August 10]];
** [[Hippolytus of Rome]], dragged by wild horses over stones, d. [[August 13]].
** [[Concordia of Rome]], foster mother of [[Hippolytus of Rome|Hippolytus]], executed and body thrown into an unclean place, [[August 13]].
*298 [[Karterios]], [[January 8]]; Martyr Diomedes the Physician of Tarsus in Cilicia [[August 16]].
=== Unknown dates ===
* Hieromartyr Therapon, Bp. of Cyprus, [[May 25]], ''c.'' 284-305 under Diocletian.
*[[Rhipsime of Armenia]] c 290, [[September 30]], during the time of Diocletian
* Sozon of Cilicia, d. [[September 7]], ''c.'' 284-305 under Emperor Maximian.
* [[Ten Holy Martyrs of Crete]], [[December 23]].
*305 '''Great martyrs: [[Panteleimon]]''' [[ July 27]]; '''[[Catherine of Alexandria]]''', d. [[November 24|Nov 24]]; '''[[Barbara of Heliopolis]]''', [[December 4]]; Martyrs Anicetus of Nicomedia and his nephew Photius <ref>Sts. Anicetus and Photius are mentioned in the prayers for the Blessing of Oil and the Lesser Blessing of Water (BOOK OF NEEDS, 1987, p. 230).</ref>, [[August 12]].
*306 '''Great martyrs:''' '''[[Theodore of Tyronthe Tyro]]''', [[February 17]]; '''[[Demetrios of Thessaloniki]]''', [[October 26]]; Bp. [[Parthenios of Lampsacus]]; [[Adrian and Natalia|Adrian]], is martyred [[March 4]] at Nicomedia <ref>The accuracy of the dating is in question; some sources state that there were actually two Adrians martyred at Nicomedia, one under Diocletian, and one under Licinius. Saint Hadrian shares a feast day with his wife on [[September 8]]; he also has feast day alone on [[March 4]] and [[August 26]].</ref>; Cyril, Bp.of Antioch, dies at mines; ''Martyrs'' Aristocles, the Presbyter of Cyprus, Deacon Demetrian and Athanasius the Reader beheaded in Salamis under Maximian Galerius, [[June 20]].
*308 [[Jacob of Nisibis|James]] (d.338) appointed first Bp. of Nisibis (Syria).
:''ca. death of Diocletian'';
*318 Martyr [[Eubotius]] at Cyzicus, d. [[December 18]] <ref> Lives of the Saints for the Whole Year by St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (18th century)</ref>
*319 Matyrdom of [[Theodore the Stratelates]] ("the General"), under Licinius, [[February 8]].
*320 ''ca,'' The [[Forty Martyrs of Sebaste]] in Armenia.
*325 '''The Holy Cross''' is found in [[Jerusalem]] by the Empress [[Helen]] [[September 14]]; '''First Ecumenical Council''' at [[Nicea]].
:''[[Ephraim of Syria]] and greater part of Christian population take refuge in the city of Edessa after the city of Nisibus is ceded to the Sassanids.''
*366 Abraham the Great of Kidunj, the Recluse and his niece Mary of Mesopotamia (fd. [[October 29]])
*367 [[Hilary of Poitiers|Hilary]], Bp. of Poitiers [[January 13]].
** [[Ambrose of Milan|Ambrose]] appointed Bp. of Milan.
*375 Abdiesus, Bp. of Kashkar, and 38 companions, in Persia, [[May 16]].
*379 [[Basil the Great]], Bp. of [[Caesarea]] [[January 1]].
*380 [[Patapius of Thebes|Patapius]] born in the Egyptian city of Thebes; Deacon [[Aithalas the Persian]], martyred [[September 1]].
*390
**[[Macarius the Great]], <ref>According to the Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium this date is 392. He was ninety-seven years old.</ref> [[January 19]]
**''Emperor Theodosius obliged to do public [[penance ]] by [[Ambrose of Milan]] for having suppressed a riot at Thessaloniki via a massacre.''
*391 [[Gregory the Theologian]], ABp. of Constantinople, reposed peacefully [[January 25]].
*412 [[Patrick of Ireland]] has a vision of God informing him that he will leave for Ireland; Barnabas of Asia Minor, and his nephew Sophronius, [[August 18]].
*415 ''Pelagianism is attacked at the [[Council of Diospolis]]''
*418 ''Pelagianism is condemned at the [[Councils of Carthage|Council of Carthage]]''
*419 King [[Brychan of Brecknock]] born, ca. 419, in South Wales.
*420 ''"Institutions of the Monastic Life"'' written by [[John Cassian]].
*507 ''c,'' [[John of Ephesus]], born.
*508 Pelagia ?
*520 [[Roman the Melodist]] moves to Constantinople from Syria; [[Benedict of Nursia ]] moves to [[Monte Cassino]]; [[w:Clonard Abbey|Clonard Abbey]] is founded in Ireland by St. [[Finnian of Clonard]], where some of the most significant names in the history of Irish Christianity (who would go on to be known as the [[Twelve Apostles of Ireland]]) studied at.
*521 Birth of [[Columba of Iona]].
*523 ''c,'' [[Brigid of Kildaire|Brigid]], (''Mary of the Gael'', died at Kildair, Ireland, [[February 1]]; Philoxenus, Bp. of Mabbug, Syriac writer-theologian, d.
*533 [[Remigius of Rheims]], Bp. of Theims, 'the Apostle of the Franks', [[October 1]] and [[January 13]].
*536 [[Evagrius Scholasticus]], Church historian born.
*538 Patr. [[Severusof Antioch|Severus]], Syrian Orthodox (Monophysite) of Antioch dies.
*540 [[Kentigern of Glasgow|Kentigern]] appointed bishop to Strathclyde Britons (modern Glasgow); ''c,'' [[Elizabeth the Wonderworker]] of Constantinople, [[April 24]]; [[David the Dendrite]] (Tree-dweller), [[July 17]]; ''c,'' [[Barsanuphius of Tver|Barsanuphius]], Bp. of Tver (Gaza)? dies, friend of [[John the Prophet]], [[April 11]].
*542 [[John of Ephesus|John]] ''sent to Ephesus by [[Justinian ]] I to convert the pagans of the region.''
*543 [[Benedict of Nursia]], died with arms lifted in prayer [[March 14]].
*545 [[Synod of Brefi]] at Llandewi Brefi in Wales condemns [[Pelagianism]]; Saint [[David of Wales]] moved the Primatial See of Britain from Caerleon to Menevia (St. Davids's).
*546 [[Columba of Iona|Columba]] founds monastery of Derry in Ireland.
*547 Saint [[David of Wales]] does obeisance to the Patriarch of Jerusalem; ''c,'' [[Benedict of Nursia]]
*548 Empress [[Theodora (wife of Justinian)|Theodora]] dies.
*550 Notable writer [[John Moschus]] born; [[Aed of Ferns]] born at Inisbrefny, Ireland; Repose of St. [[Jarlath of Tuam]], 1st Bp. of Tuam.
*556 [[Columba of Iona|Columba]] founds monastery of Durrow in Irelandl; ''c, or 560'' [[Roman the Melodist]] [[October 1]]
*557 [[Brendan the Navigator]] founds monastery at Clonfert, Ireland.
*560 [[Cloud|Clodoald (Cloud)]], <ref>Saint [[Cloud]] was ordained a [[priest ]] by Bishop Eusebius of Paris in 551.</ref> hermit at Nogent-Sur-Seine, Paris [[September 7]].
*565 ''General Belisarius dies.''
** ''"Lives of the Easter Saints" written by'' [[John of Ephesus]].
*687 [[Cuthbert of Lindisfarne|Cuthbert]], Bp. of Lindisfarne, [[March 20]].
*689 [[Benedict Biscop]], abbot of Jarrow, died at Wearmouth, CoDurham, [[January 12]].
*690 [[Theodore of Tarsus]], ABp. of Canterbury, [[September 19]]; [[Translation (relics)|Translation]] of the holy [[relics ]] of [[Birinus of Dorchester|Birinus]], ABp. of Dorchester to Winchester.
*693 [[Erconwald of London|Eerconwald]], Bp. of London [[April 30]].
*700 ''c,''[[Isaac of Syria]].
*714 [[Guthlac of Crowland]], hermit [[April 11]].
*716 [[Donald of Ogilvy]], Confessor of Scotland, [[July 15]].
*717 [[Dunchad Abbot of Iona]], [[March 24]].
*725 [[Cuthburga of Wimborne]], Queen and first abbess of Wimborne, [[August 31]].
*730 The Martyrs Julian, Marcian, John, James, Alexios, Dimitrios, Photios, Peter, Leontios, Maria the Patrician, the Protospatharios ("Sword-Captain") Gregory and Others suffered for holy icons under the Iconoclast emperor Leo the Isaurian (717-741), [[August 9]].
*774 Sarmean, the Catholicos of Kartli, Georgia, d. [[August 21]].
*778 [[Theodore of Pavia|Theodore]], Bp. of Pavia, [[May 20]].
*787 ''Iconodule'' [[Irene of Athens]] convenes [[Seventh Ecumenical Council|Second Council of Nicea]] to restore the practise of venerating icons, [[OCtober October 11]]; ''c,'' [[Cosmas the Hymnographer]], Bp. of Majuma, [[October 12]].
*''Unknown dates:''
**[[Cuthman of Steyning]], founder of St Andrew's, Steyning, [[February 8]].
**[[Donald of Scotland]], died in Olgivy, Forfarshire (Scotland), [[July 15]].
==Nineth Ninth century (801-900)==
*803 [[Irene of Athens]], iconodule, d. [[August 9]] in Lesbos.
*806 Translation of the relics of ''Hieromartyr'' Therapon, Bp. of Cyprus, from Cyprus to Constantinople, [[November 12]].
*1682 [[Ahmed the Calligrapher]], [[May 3]]; [[Evgenius (Yiannoulis) the Aitolian]], reposed in prayer [[August 5]].
*1686 great-martyr Apostolos the New, beheaded in Constantinople [[August 16]].
*1688 New-martyr [[Stamatios of Volos]], [[August 16]]; Miracle from the [[Mother of God, Joy of All Who Sorrow]] icon, [[October 24]].
*1700 [[Athanasius of Attalia]], <ref>The relics of [[Athanasius of Attalia]] are buried in the church of St. Paraskevi in Smyrna.</ref> beheaded [[January 7]].
==Nineteenth century (1801-1900)==
*1803 Blessed [[Xenia of St. Petersburg]], [[February 6]].
*1804 [[Euthymius the Elder]], abbot of St. John the Baptist monastery in the Davit-Gareji Wilderness, d. [[August 8]].
*1805 [[Macarius Notaras of Corinth|Makarius of Corinth]], a central figure in the [[Kollyvades Movement]].
*1846 First uncovering of the holy relics of [[Tikhon of Zadonsk]], Bp. of Voronezh, [[May 14]].
*1851 Martyrdom of the Holy Fathers<ref>The Names of these fathers are: Monk Michael (subjected to the harshest tortures), Otar (stabbed), Hieromonk Gerontius (beheaded), Hieromonk Serapion (beheaded), Monk Herman (stabbed in stomach) and 18 year old Simeon (beheaded) by the Dagestani army.</ref> of the David-Gareji monastery in Georgia by the Dagestani army,<ref>Account and date witnessed by the ''Hieromonk'' [[Isaac of Gaenati]] in 1853.</ref> [[August 12]].
*1860 Death of [[Alexei Stepanovich Khomiakov|Alexei Khomiakov]], co-founder of the [[Slavophile movement]].
*1861 Glorification of [[Tikhon of Zadonsk]], Bp. of Voronezh, [[August 13]].
*1864 [[Jacob Netsvetov]], [[July 26]].
*1872 '''[[Phyletism]] declared [[heresy]] by [[Council of Jerusalem]].
*1877 Death of [[Arsenios of Paros]], [[January 31]].
*1879 [[Innocent of Alaska]], [[Equal-to-the-Apostles]], [[March 31]]; Nikolay Alexandrovich Motovilov, ''Servant to [[Seraphim of Sarov|Seraphim]]'', not glorified, d. [[January 14]].
*1882 [[Mitrophan Ji]] becomes the first Chinese ordained a priest in the [[Church of China]].
*1888 Glorification of the St Petersburgh . Petersburg [[Mother of God, Joy of All Who Sorrow]] icon, [[July 23]].
*1889 Translation of the icon [[Deliveress]] [[October 17]]
*1890 ''c,'' ''[[Unseen Warfare]]'' further revised by [[Theophan the Recluse]].
*1891 [[Ambrose of Optina]], <ref>Saint [[Ambrose of Optina]] was canonised in 1988 by the local council of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]</ref> died [[October 23]] (fd: [[October 10]]).
*1894 [[Theophan the Recluse]], [[January 6]].
*1900 [[Meletius of Ryazan |Meletius]], bishop of Ryazan, missionary to Yakutia, [[January 14]]; [[Martyrs of China|Martyrdom of Orthodox Christians]] in Chinese Boxer Rebellion (Yihetuan Movement), [[June 11]].
