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100–100 · Early Church

Mantius of Évora (Portuguese: São Manços) was the legendary first bishop of Lisbon and of Évora in the 1st century AD. In some versions of his legend, he was one of the disciples of Jesus Christ, who was sent to preach the Gospel in Lusitania.

362 · Early Church

Saint Manuel, a martyr in Chalcedon in 362, along with Saints Sabel and Ishmael, lived under the reign of Julian the Apostate, the last openly pagan Roman emperor who attempted to restore the Roman religion.

480 · Early Church

Saint Manvieu was a Catholic priest and bishop born in Bayeux, France. He died in 480.

389 · Early Church

Saint Marcel d'Apamée died in 389. He is recognized as a saint.

274 · Early Church

Saint Marcel d'Argenton was a citizen of Ancient Rome. He died in 274.

100–100 · Early Church

Marcella, according to Catholic tradition, was a disciple of Jesus and a servant of the brothers of Bethany. She is known for being the companion of Saint Martha during the Christianization of the current French region of Provence.

300–304 · Early Church

Pope Marcellinus was the bishop of Rome from 30 June 296 to his death in 304. A historical accusation was levelled at him by some sources to the effect that he might have renounced Christianity during Emperor Diocletian's persecution of Christians before repenting afterwards, whi…

350–413 · Early Church

Marcellinus of Carthage was a Christian martyr and saint who died in 413. He was secretary of state of the Western Roman Empire under Roman emperor Honorius and a close friend of Augustine of Hippo, as well as a correspondent of Saint Jerome.

300–374 · Early Church

Marcellinus of Gaul also known as Marcellin was the first bishop of Embrun from 354 AD. He was a native of Africa Proconsularis. Marcellin, went to Rome with two other bishops of North Africa, Vincent and Domnin, to attend a synod in 313 to judge the Donatists movement.

255–309 · Early Church

Pope Marcellus I (Italian: Marcello I) (6 January 255 – 16 January 309) was the bishop of Rome from May or June 308 to his death on 16 January 309. He succeeded Marcellinus after a considerable interval.

401–485 · Early Church

Marcellus of Constantinople (died c. 485), a native of Syria, was the hegumen (abbot) of the Monastery of the Acoemetae in Constantinople. He fought against the Monophysite and Arian heresies. Regarded as a saint, his feast day is celebrated on December 29.

300–400 · Early Church

Marcellus and Apuleius were third- or fourth-century martyrs who were inserted in the General Roman Calendar in the 13th century. They were recognized as saints by the Catholic Church, with 7 October as their feast day.

150–179 · Early Church

Saint Marcel de Chalon (d. 177 or 179 CE) was a Gallo-Roman saint, martyred at Chalon-sur-Saône under Marcus Aurelius. Though St Marcel's cult and the fact of his martyrdom (recorded as early as Gregory of Tours) are well-attested, his life is mainly known from a later hagiograp…

436 · Early Church

Marcel of Paris (French: Marcel de Paris) or St Marcellus was the 9th bishop of Paris and namesake of a bell of Notre-Dame de Paris. Marcellus of Paris was born in Lutetia (now île de la Cité, Paris), located in Gallia Lugdunensis, Roman Gaul, within the Western Roman Empire.

300–298 · Early Church

Saint Marcellus of Tangier or Saint Marcellus the Centurion (Spanish: San Marcelo) (c. mid 3rd century – 298 AD) was a Roman centurion who is today venerated as a martyr-saint in both the Eastern Orthodox and the Catholic Church. His feast day is celebrated on October 30.

392–457 · Early Church

Marcian was Roman emperor of the East from 450 to 457. Very little is known of his life before becoming emperor, other than that he was a domesticus (personal assistant) who served under the commanders Ardabur and his son Aspar for fifteen years.

100–120 · Early Church

Marcian (Marciano, Marziano, Marcianus) of Tortona (died 117 or 120 AD) is a saint of Roman Catholic church. He is traditionally said to have been the first bishop of Tortona, in what is now north-western Italy, a post he held for forty-five years.

250–303 · Early Church

Marciana of Toledo, also known as Marciana of Mauretania and Marciana of Caesarea, (died 9 January 304) is venerated as a martyr and saint. Her feast day is celebrated by both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church on July 12.

401–496 · Early Church

Marcianus was a Catholic priest and bishop born in the Byzantine Empire in 401. He died in Frigento in 496 and is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.

292–307 · Early Church

Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr (Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Μαρίνα) in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July in Western Christianity, on 30th of July (Julian calendar) by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and on Epip 23 and Hat…

201–303 · Early Church

Saint Mariano d'Acerenza was born in 201 in Acerenza and died in 303 in Grumentum. He is recognized as a Catholic saint.

119–139 · Early Church

Marina of Aguas Santas (also Marina of Ourense) (c.120–135 AD) was a Christian virgin martyr from Aguas Santas, in the province of Ourense. The story of her life as it has been preserved is a mixture of fact and legends.

275–366 · Early Church

Marinus is a Christian saint, who according to hagiographical accounts recorded centuries after his lifetime was the founder of a chapel and monastery in 301 from whose initial community the state of San Marino later grew.

262 · Early Church

Marinus of Caesarea (Greek: Μαρῖνος) was a Roman soldier and a Christian martyr. Marinus was a Roman soldier stationed in Caesarea in Palestine.

300–336 · Early Church

Pope Mark (Latin: Marcus) was the bishop of Rome from 18 January to his death on 7 October 336. Little is known of Mark's early life. According to the Liber Pontificalis, he was a Roman, and his father's name was Priscus. Mark succeeded Sylvester I as pope on 18 January 336.

300–364 · Early Church

Mark of Arethusa, born around 300 and died in 364, was a figure of early Christianity. He was elected bishop of the city of Arethusa (modern-day al-Rastan, on the Orontes, near Homs), in the Roman province of Syria, during the reign of Constantine I.

423 · Early Church

Marolus (Italian: Marolo) was Archbishop of Milan from 408 to 423. He is honoured as a Saint in the Catholic Church and his feast day is April 23.

301–410 · Early Church

Maron, also called Maroun or Maro (Syriac: ܡܪܘܢ, Mārōn; Arabic: مَارُون, Mārūn; Latin: Maron; Ancient Greek: Μάρων), was a 4th-century Syriac Christian hermit monk in the Taurus Mountains whose followers, after his death, founded a religious Christian movement that became known a…

100–100 · Early Church

Marone (Brescian: Marù) is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy. Marone is located on the eastern shore of Lake Iseo at about 200 m a.s.l. The territory is mainly mountainous.

300–300 · Early Church

Saint Marta d'Astorga was born in 300 in Astorga. She died in the same city in 300.

400 · Early Church

Saint Martin de Saujon was a Catholic priest and abbot born in Saintes. He died in 400 and is recognized as a saint.

407 · Early Church

Saint Martin of Brive died in 407. He is recognized as a saint.

107 · Early Church

Saint Martin of Vienne was the legendary third bishop of Vienne, in France, believed to have lived in the 2nd (or 3rd) century. He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, with a feast day celebrated locally in Vienne on 1 July.

350–435 · Early Church

Martinianus (or Martinus, Italian: Martiniano) was Archbishop of Milan from 423 to 435. He is honoured as a Saint in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. His feast day is 2 January. A tradition associates Martinianus with the Roman family of the Hosii.

250–301 · Early Church

Martirià (Florence, mid-4th century – Albenga, late 4th century) was a bishop of Albenga who is venerated today as the patron saint of the town of Banyoles.

400–422 · Early Church

Maruthas or Marutha of Martyropolis was a Syriac monk who became bishop of Maypherkat in Mesopotamia (Meiafarakin) for a period beginning before 399 up to around 410. He is believed to have died before 420.

344–421 · Early Church

Mary of Egypt was an Egyptian grazer saint, said to have dwelled in Byzantine-era Palestine in the 5th century AD (in late antiquity / Early Middle Ages).

361 · Early Church

Mary of Edessa was a 4th-century Christian anchorite and saint. Her feast day is celebrated on October 29 in the Latin liturgical calendar. Although her historicity was questioned by a sector of the Catholic Church in 1961, she is included among the Holy Helpers and is invoked in…

400–368 · Early Church

St. Maternien (died 368), was 4th century French Bishop of Reims, saint and confessor. His feast day is 30 April. Maternien, was the brother of St Materne the Bishop of Milan(Feast day on 18 July) and was Bishop of Reims from 348 to 359AD. He died July 7, 368.

300 · Early Church

Maternus (Italian: Materno) was Archbishop of Milan from c. 316 to c. 328. He is honoured as a Saint in the Catholic Church and his feast day is on July 18. Almost nothing is known about the life of Maternus.

300–328 · Early Church

Maternus (c. 285–September 14, 315 AD), also known as Maternus II, was the first known bishop of Cologne, reportedly also the third bishop of Trier, and founder of the diocese of Tongeren. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

250–300 · Early Church

Matrona of Barcelona or Matrona of Thessalonica is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. She was recognized as a saint pre-congregation. She lived in the third or fourth century.

420–490 · Early Church

Matrona of Perge (Greek: Ματρώνα) of the 6th century was a Byzantine female saint known for temporarily cross-dressing as the monk Babylos to avoid her husband after she decided to live following the sentence in chapter 7, verse 29 of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, "those…

301–301 · Early Church

Saint Matthew the Hermit (Arabic: القديس مار متى الناسك; Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܡܬܝ Mor Mattai) was a 4th-century Christian priest. He is venerated as a saint in the Syriac Orthodox Church. His feast day is on the 18th of September.

100–120 · Early Church

Matthias of Jerusalem (died 120 AD) was a 2nd-century Christian saint and a Bishop of Jerusalem, whose episcopacy was about 113–120 AD. Matthew was probably bishop for few years after Tobias until 120.

201–301 · Early Church

Maturinus, or Mathurin (died ca. 300 AD) was a Gallo-Roman exorcist and missionary venerated as a saint. The first source to mention Maturinus is the Martyrology of Usuard, written in 875. In the next century, a biography of Maturinus was composed.

488 · Early Church

Maughold (also known as Macaille, Maccaldus, Machalus, Machaoi, Machella, Maghor, Mawgan, Maccul, Macc Cuill; died c. 488 AD) is venerated as the patron saint of the Isle of Man.

283 · Early Church

Maur or Maurus was a Roman child martyr of the 3rd century. According to tradition, in the year 283, he was martyred alongside his father Claudius, a tribune of ancient Rome who had converted to Christianity, his mother Hilaria, and his brother Jason.

364–426 · Early Church

Saint Maurilius (French: Maurille) (c. 336 – 453), a priest originally from Milan, was the bishop of Angers between 423 and 453. He played an early role in the Christianization of Gaul. In the seventh century, a devotion to St. Maurilius began.

250–305 · Early Church

Saint Mauritius of Apameia was born in 250 and died in 305. He died in Apamea.