Collections
Ways into the communion of saints, gathered by calling, place, and life.
There are more than two thousand saints in this database, which is a difficult number to meet all at once. A collection is a smaller door: a set of saints gathered because they shared a calling, a country, a manner of life, or a way of suffering — small enough to read through, and coherent enough to be worth reading.
Each collection stands on the same facets that drive the rest of the site, so nothing here is a separate list to be maintained by hand. As those facets fill out across the database, the collections drawn from them get better.
Saints of America
The saints of the North American Church — the Alaskan mission, the martyrs and missionaries, and the hierarchs who planted Orthodoxy on this continent.
OpenA memorial collectionWitnesses of Our Time
Orthodox Christians of the last hundred years held in living memory but not formally glorified — teachers, hierarchs, monastics and converts, remembered without any claim of sainthood.
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