Macedonian Christian Saints

[Soldier of Macedon]

We should compile a list of all Macedonian Christian saints as we don't have one on this forum as of yet. Here is a start, if anybody has more to add please do so.


- Saint Demetrius of Salonika (Sveti Dimitrija Solunski), 4th century.

- Saint Cyril of Salonika (Sveti Kiril Solunski), 9th century.

- Saint Methodius of Salonika (Sveti Metodija Solunski), 9th century.

- Saint Clement of Ohrid (Sveti Kliment Ohridski), 10th century.

- Saint Naum of Ohrid (Sveti Naum Ohridski), 10th century.

- Saint John of Debar (Sveti Jovan Debarski), 11th century.

- Saint John Kukuzel (Sveti Jovan Kukuzel), 14th century.

[Brian]

According to Wiki there is Urban of Macedonia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_of_Macedonia

[George S.]

sveti georgia,sveti atanas,sveti spas,sveti stefan,sveti bogorodica,st elesbaan.sveti jovan.

[Soldier of Macedon]

sveti georgia,sveti atanas,sveti spas,sveti stefan,sveti bogorodica,st elesbaan.sveti jovan.

George, I was actually thinking of saints who are specifically from Macedonia or with Macedonian ancestry.

According to Wiki there is Urban of Macedonia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_of_Macedonia

Was he actually from Macedonia?

http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=103124

Saint Urban, one of the Seventy Apostles, was made a bishop by St Andrew (November 30), and was active in Macedonia. They were killed by Jews and pagan Greeks because of their zeal in preaching the Gospel.

Here is something interesting regarding Saint Clement's perception of Saint Demetrius:

Tales of his fantastic exploits must have played a part in inclining the Serbs and the Bulgarians or Macedonians, or both, towards Orthodoxy. St Kliment of nearby Ohrid was to describe St Dimitri as 'the most glorious martyr' and 'the firm foundation of his fatherland'.

Page 138, Why Angels Fall, Victoria Clark.

[George S.]

i read somewhere st luke was a macedonian.Whether he was born in macedonia???

[Soldier of Macedon]

Here is a thread that TM created which discussing Saint Luke and the possibility of Macedonian origins:

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3321&highlight=luke+macedonia

[Daniel the Great]

Good thread SoM. Lets not forget Saint Lidia (Sveta Lidia Makedonka), the first Christian in Europe. She was the first person in Europe to be baptised and baptised by Saint Paul.

[Soldier of Macedon]

Thanks Daniel. It has been written that Lydia was actually from a place called Thyatira, and that she came to Philippi afterwards, although Thyatira appears to have been a Macedonian colony.

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5825

[Bill77]

Can we add St Irene to the list? i posted something about her before and will have to do a search and double post it here, if its appropriate.

[Soldier of Macedon]

You might be talking about the thread in the below link:

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum/showthread.php?t=332&highlight=irene+macedonian&page=2

St. Irene, born Slav, lived in the second half of the first century and was the daughter of Licinius, ruler of the city Mageddona in Macedonia.

[Bill77]

You might be talking about the thread in the below link:

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum...edonian&page=2

Yes that's the one. She has been known as St Irene of Macedonia, also St Irene of Thesaloniki (Solun).

Looking back at the article (in particular the sentence you quoted), how silly and inaccurate it is. She existed during the 1st century. To say "she was born a Slav", which pre-dates the So called slav invaders by about 5 centuries.

[Soldier of Macedon]

It was written by Russians, and although using the term for that period is anachronistic to a certain degree, it is most likely based on the understanding that the people of Macedonia and Russia were linguistically related well before the 6th century. That is why they have identified her as a 'Slav'.

[Avakum]

Is there a downloadable electronic version of the book Portreti na svetitelite od Makedonija od IX - XVIII vek, by Cvetan Grozdanov (Skopje 1983)? It would be a great promotion of Macedonian culture if someone uploaded it on the Web.