Orthodox Military Patron Saints

This list includes Service Patrons (for instance, St. Nicholas for the Navy), Warrior Saints, Saints who were “prior service” (St. Juvenaly), Intercessors for soldiers (St. Gurias), and Icons which were present at battles.  It also includes recently canonized military Saints of the Russian and Polish Orthodox Churches. (Compiled and graciously supplied to the SGOMA by V. Rev. Jerome Cwiklinski, CAPT, CHC, USN)

January

7          St. John the Forerunner (synaxis)

8          Twenty Soldier-martyrs at Antinoe

26        Seven Soldier-martyrs in Phoenicia

30        St. Theodore the Tribune

February

8          St. Theodore the General

17        St. Theodore the Recruit

            St. Menas of Alexandria

9          St. Innocent of Irkutsk (uncovering of relics)

22        Seventy Soldier-martyrs at Apamea

24        St. John the Forerunner (1^st and 2^nd finding of the relics)

            St. Theodore the Recruit

27        St. Titus the Soldier of the Kiev Caves

March

9          Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

23        St. Amphilochius the Captain

April

7          Two Hundred Soldier-martyrs at Sinope

23        St. George the Victorious

            SS. Anatolius and Protoleon, Soldier-martyrs

24        St. Sabbas the General and Seventy Soldier-martyrs

May

2          SS. Boris and Gleb, Passion-bearers

4          St. Wassily (Martysz) the Chaplain (repose)

6          St. Barbarus the Soldier

7          St. Acacius the Centurion

9          St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (translation of relics)

19        St. Demetrius Donskoy

21        Our Lady of Vladimir (intercession at Moscow in 1521)

            St. Constantine, Equal-to-the-Apostles

23        St. Alexander Nevsky

St. Evgeni (Rodionov) the Soldier-martyr (birth)

St. Marcellus the Tribune

St. Meletius the General

1,218 Soldier-martyrs in Galatia

SS. Faustus, Festus, Marcellus, Theodore, Meletius, Sergius, Marcellinus, Felix, Photinus, Theodoriscus, Mercurius, and Didymus, Tribunes

27        St. Didymus the Soldier at Alexandria

June

8          St. Theodore the General

            St. John of Kronstadt (glorification)

19        St. Zosimas the Soldier-martyr at Antioch

24        St. John the Forerunner (nativity)

July

8          St. Procopius the Great-martyr

9          St. Alexander the Solider-martyr in Egypt

23        Our Lady of Pochaev (1675)

St. Alexander the Soldier

            St. Theodore (Ushakov) the Righteous Admiral

24        SS. Boris and Gleb

30        St. John the Warrior

August

1          Procession of the Wood of the Cross

7          St. Marinus the Soldier-martyr at Caesarea in Palestine

19        St. Andrew Stratelates and 2,593 Soldier-martyrs in Cilicia

20        St. Evgeni (Rodianov) the Soldier-martyr (repose)

            Thirty-seven Soldier-martyrs in Thrace

22        St. Gorazhd, Hieromartyr of  Prague

26        Our Lady of Vladimir (intercession at Moscow in 1395)

29        St. John the Forerunner

30        St. Alexander Nevsky

September

5          SS. Juventius and Maximus, Soldier-martyrs at Antioch

6          St. Michael the Archangel at Colossae

13        St. Cornelius the Centurion

14        Exaltation of the Cross

23        St. John the Forerunner (conception)

24        St. Juvenaly the Martyr

October

1          Protection of the Theotokos (Constantinople and Pskov)

2          St. Theodore (Ushakov) the Righteous Admiral

8          St. Michael the Archangel

            Synaxis of the Heavenly Host

12        St. Martin of Tours

16        St. Longinus the Centurion

20        Holy Great Martyr Artemius

22        Our Lady of Kazan

26        St. Demetrius of Thessalonika

31        St. John Kochurov (repose)

November

9          St. Nectarios of Aegina

11        St. Martin of Tours

            St. Menas of Egypt

15        St. Gurias

17        One hundred and thirty-three Soldier-martyrs in Georgia

19        One hundred and fifty Soldier-martyrs at Isauria

22        St. Michael the Soldier of Bulgaria

23        St. Alexander Nevsky

24        St. Porphyrius the General

            Two hundred Soldiers martyred with St. Catherine

            Greatmartyr Mercurius of Caesarea

26        St. Innocent of Irkutsk (repose)

27        St. Nestor of Thessalonika

30        St. Andrew the First-called

December

4          St. Barbara

6          St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

10        St. Menas of Alexandria

13        St. Eustratius the Tribune

18        St. Sebastian

20        St. John of Kronstadt (repose)

Saint George Pray for our Troops.