Saint titles
The holy ones of the Orthodox Church have various customarysaint titleswith which they arecommemoratedon theChurch Calendarand in divine services.
The following list explains the references:
- Confessor:one who has suffered for the faith but not martyred outright
- Hiero-confessor:one who has suffered for the faith, but not martyred, who is also aclergyman.
- Enlightener of N.orIlluminator of N.:the saint who first brought the faith to a people or region, or who did major work ofevangelizationthere as amissionaryorevangelist
- Equal-to-the-Apostles:one whose work greatly built up the Church, whether through directmissionarywork or through assisting the Church's place in society
- Fool-for-Christ:a saint known for his apparent, yet holy, insanity
- God-bearer:one who bears God within himself and is aflame in heart with love for Him[1]
- Great-martyr:one who was martyred for the faith and suffered torture
- Hieromartyr:a martyr who is also aclergyman
- Martyr:one who has died for the faith
- Merciful:one known forcharitable work,especiallyserving the poor
- Myrrh-bearer:one of the women who were present at Christ's passion and went to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus
- Myrrh-streaming,Myrrh-gusher,orMyroblete:therelicsof the saint exude holy and sweet-smelling (and often miraculous) oil
- New-martyr:a martyr often bearing the same name as a more ancient martyr, but usually more recent in the Church's history
- Passion-bearer:one who faced his death in a Christ-like manner
- Protomartyr:the first martyr in a given region (in the case ofStephen the Protomartyr,the first martyr of the whole Church)
- Right-believing:an epithet used for sainted secular rulers
- Righteous:a holy person under the Old Covenant (Old Testament Israel) but also sometimes used for married saints of the New Covenant (the Church);righteousmay also used as a translation for the Greekhosios,which is usually translated as "venerable."
- Unmercenary:a saint who refused to take payment for healing, especially inserving the poor
- Venerable:amonasticsaint
- Venerable-martyr:a martyred monastic
- Virgin-martyr:an unmarried, non-monastic, chaste female martyr
- Wonderworker:a saint renowned for performing miracles, also called "miracle-worker"
