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742 · Medieval · Benedictines

Of the early life of Erkembode, who lived in the late 7th and first half of the 8th centuries, nothing is known. It has been surmised that he was an Irish monk who travelled with several companions to Sithiu, now Saint-Omer in northern France where he lived in the monastery.

1001–1075 · Medieval

Saint Erlembald (or Erlembaldo Cotta) (Sanctus Herlembaldus in Latin) (died 15 April 1075) was the political and military leader of the movement known as the pataria in Milan, a movement to reform the clergy and the church in the Ambrosian diocese.

510–590 · Medieval

Saint Ermelinde (born c. 546 in Lovenjoel, died 594 in Meldert, Hoegaarden), is a Brabant Saint of the 6th century. Her feast day is October 29. Her parents, Ermeonoldo and Armensinda, were rich chatelains related to the Pippinids. They wanted her to marry, but she refused.

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Ermenfroy or Ermenfroi (Ermenfredus in Latin) was a saint of Germanic origin who lived in the 7th century in the Doubs region, where he is particularly venerated.

804–851 · Medieval

Ermengarde of Tours (c. 810 – 20 Mar 851) was a Carolinian Empress consort and queen of Italy. She was daughter of Hugh of Tours and Ava of Morvois. In October 821 in Thionville, Ermengarde married the Carolingian Emperor Lothair I of the Franks (795–855).

700 · Medieval

Saint Eormenhild (or Ermenilda, Ermenildis, Ermengild, all meaning "battle-great", from eormen- "great", hild- "battle") (died about 700/703) is a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon saint venerated in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.

700–737 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Ermin of Lobbes (died 737, in Lobbes, Hainaut, Belgium) was the second abbot of Lobbes Abbey. Originally from the region of Laon, he studied at the Cathedral School of Laon (France) and was ordained as a priest by the bishop, Madalgaire.

1100–1121 · Medieval · Benedictines

Erminold was a Benedictine abbot. He was given to Hirschau Monastery, in Würzburg, Germany, as a small child. In 1110, he became the abbot of Lorsch, resigning and returning to Hirschau when his election was disputed. In 1117, Erminold became abbot of Prüfening.

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Ernan (variants include Ernain, Ernin, Ethernanus) is the name of four Irish saints. Ernan, son of Eogan, died around 640. Mentioned in the Martyrology of Tallaght on 1 January, he was a nephew of Columba and sometime missionary to the Picts.

1096 · Medieval · Benedictines

Ernst of Neresheim (born in Dillingen an der Donau; died 1096 in Mecca) is said to have been the first abbot of Neresheim Abbey, according to an early modern tradition of the monastery. The monks there regarded him as a saint and martyr (feast day: presumably July 13).

1870–1915 · Contemporary

Yervant Srmakeshkhanlian (Armenian: Երուանդ Սրմաքէշխանլեան; 1870 – 1915), known by his pen name Erukhan (Armenian: Երուխան) or Yerukhan, was an Armenian writer of late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was killed during the Armenian genocide.

626 · Medieval

Eterio de Viena was a Catholic priest who served as a bishop. He died in 626 and is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

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Saint Æthelflæd of Romsey (also Ælflæd and Æthelflæda) was a late tenth-century abbess of Romsey Abbey. Her identity is obscure, though in later stories she was said to be the daughter of a tenth-century nobleman. Her feast days are 23rd October and 5th November.

1802–1861 · Modern

Étienne-Théodore Cuenot, born in Le Bélieu, France, near Morteau (Doubs), on February 8, 1802, and died in Bình Định in Eastern Cochinchina (present-day Vietnam) on November 14, 1861, was a missionary bishop, martyr, and Catholic saint whose feast day is November 14, and who is c…

201–308 · Early Church

Saint Adrian (died 308) travelled from Batanea to Caesarea Palaestina, where he was martyred together with Saint Eubulus. He is commemorated on 5 March; Eubulus on 7 March.

101–300 · Early Church

Saint Eucharius is venerated as the first bishop of Trier. He lived in the second half of the 3rd century. According to an ancient legend, he was one of the seventy-two disciples of Christ, and was sent to Gaul by Saint Peter as bishop, together with the deacon Valerius and the…

380–449 · Early Church

Eucherius (c. 380 – c. 449) was a high-born and high-ranking ecclesiastic in the Christian church in Roman Gaul. He is remembered for his letters advocating extreme self-abnegation.

687–738 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Eucherius of Orléans (c. 687 in Orléans – February 20, 743 AD), nephew of Suavaric, bishop of Auxerre, was Bishop of Orléans. Reading the letters of Paul the Apostle led Eucherius to seek the monastic life in 714, when he retired to the Abbey of Jumièges in the Diocese of…

1600–1643 · Reformation

Eudemus I Diasamidze (Georgian: ევდემოზ I დიასამიძე, Evdemoz I Diasamidze; died 1642) was a Georgian churchman serving as Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia from 1632 until his death in 1642.

300–300 · Early Church

Eudokia the Martyr or Ia (in Ancient Greek: Εὐδοκία ἡ Μάρτυς) is a Christian saint and martyr from the 3rd century. According to Christian hagiographic accounts, she was deported along with thousands of other Christians by Shapur I.

1803–1886 · Modern

Saint Eudokia di Leušino was born in 1803 and died in 1886. She is recognized as a saint.

100–107 · Early Church

Eudokia (Greek: Ευδοκία) was a Samarian woman who lived in Heliopolis of Phoenicia (present day Baalbek, Lebanon). She should not be confused with the martyr Eudokia. Eudokia was very beautiful, and garnered her wealth by attracting wealthy lovers.

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Euphemia (fl. 2nd century) is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. According to tradition, her body was miraculously discovered by a Spanish shepherdess at the end of the 11th century.

450–510 · Medieval

Eugendus (also Augendus; French: Oyand, Oyan; c. 449 – January 1, 510) was the fourth abbot of Condat Abbey, at Saint-Claude, Jura. Eugendus was born at Izernore.

1877–1937 · Contemporary

Born in Moscow in 1877, Eugene was an Eastern Orthodox metropolitan and a citizen of the Soviet Union. He died in 1937 at Karlag and is venerated as a hieromartyr.

1865–1918 · Contemporary

Yevgeny Sergeyevich Botkin (Russian: Евгений Сергеевич Боткин; 27 March 1865 – 17 July 1918), commonly known as Eugene Botkin, was the court physician since 1908 for Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.

700–657 · Medieval

Pope Eugene I (Latin: Eugenius I; died 2 June 657) was the bishop of Rome from 10 August 654 to his death on 2 June 657. He was chosen to become Pope after the deposition and banishment of Martin I by Emperor Constans II over the dispute about Monothelitism.

1903–1943 · Contemporary

Eugénie Maskiewicz (in religion Sister Marie-Canisia), born on November 27, 1903, in Suwałki, Poland, and died on August 1, 1943, near Nowogródek (Poland, now Belarus), was a Polish nun who was executed by firing squad by the Gestapo along with her ten other martyr companions of…

262 · Early Church

Eugenia of Rome (died c AD 258) was an early Christian Roman martyr whose feast day is celebrated on December 25 in the Roman Catholic Church, on December 24 (January 6, New Style) in the Eastern Catholic Churches and Eastern Orthodox Church, and on January 23 in the Armenian Apo…

701–800 · Medieval

Eugenio di Milano was a Catholic priest who served as a bishop. Born in 701, he died in Milan in 800 and is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

657 · Medieval

Saint Eugenius II (died 13 November 657), sometimes called Eugenius the Younger as the successor of Eugenius I, was Archbishop of Toledo from 647 until his death.

450–505 · Medieval

Eugenius of Carthage was a Christian prelate unanimously elected Bishop of Carthage in 480 to succeed Deogratias. He was caught up in the disputes of his day between Arianism and mainstream Christianity. He is revered as a saint.

400–450 · Early Church

Eugenius of Florence was a deacon and subdeacon who lived from 400 to 450. He died in Florence and is recognized as a saint.

250–250 · Early Church

Eugenius of Toledo was a Catholic priest and bishop born in Rome in 250. He died in 250 in Deuil-la-Barre by decapitation and is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church.

100–65 · Early Church

Eugene of Valencia was a Christian from Hispania, a supposed disciple of the Apostle James, who died around the year 65. According to a late tradition documented from the 16th century onwards, he is considered the first bishop of Valencia.

1892–1937 · Contemporary

Eugenius, secular name Yevgeny Yakovlevich Kobranov (born January 9/21, 1892, in Blagoveshchensk; died November 20, 1937, near Shymkent), was a Russian Orthodox bishop, one of the leaders of the Iosiflyan movement, and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

460–533 · Medieval

Eugippius (circa 460 – circa 535, Castellum Lucullanum) was a disciple and the biographer of Saint Severinus of Noricum. After the latter's death in 482, he took the remains to Naples and founded a monastery on the site of a 1st-century Roman villa, the Castellum Lucullanum (on…

695–735 · Medieval

Eugenia of Alsace (French: Eugénie d'Alsace, died 16 September 735), was the second abbess of the Hohenburg Abbey, in Alsace from 721 to 735 who is venerated as a Christian saint. She was a niece of Saint Odile and sister of Saint Attalus.

290–303 · Early Church

Eulalia (c. 289 – February 12, 303), co-patron saint of Barcelona, was a 13-year-old Roman Christian virgin who was martyred in Barcelona during the persecution of Christians in the reign of emperor Diocletian (the Sequence of Saint Eulalia mentions his co-emperor the "pagan king…

290–304 · Early Church

Eulalia of Mérida (Augusta Emerita in 292 - Augusta Emerita 10 December, 304) was a young Roman Christian martyred in Augusta Emerita, the capital of Lusitania (modern Mérida, Spain), during the Persecution of Christians under Diocletian.

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Eulalius (second half of the 5th century – first half of the 6th century) was Bishop of Syracuse. The few details of his life are handed down to us by Saint Fulgentius, who stayed in Syracuse as a guest of Eulalius for several months.

310 · Early Church

310 · Early Church

810–859 · Medieval

Saint Eulogius of Córdoba (Spanish: San Eulogio de Córdoba (died 11 March 859)) was one of the Martyrs of Córdoba. He lived during the reigns of the Cordovan emirs Abd ar-Rahman II and Muhammad I (mid-9th century).

387 · Early Church

Saint Eulogius (Syriac: Walagash) was the Bishop of Edessa during the late 4th century A.D. He was persecuted for his faith under the Roman emperors. In 379 or 380 A.D., he built the House of Mar Daniel, a church in Edessa.

259 · Early Church

Eulogius of Tarragona, or Saint Eulogius (died January 21, 259), was a Hispano-Roman Christian cleric. While serving as a deacon, he was martyred alongside Bishop Fructuosus and the fellow deacon Augurius.

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Eumenio of Gortyna served as a presbyter and held the position of bishop. He is recognized as a saint.

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Eunius is a Catholic saint who lived in the 5th or 6th century. He likely arrived in Cornwall, where he conducted his ministry, from Ireland. There is no reliable information about the saint other than the fact that his cult has long been vibrant in local tradition.

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Saint Euny or Uny (6th century) is the patron saint of the churches of Lelant and Redruth in west Cornwall, England, UK. William Worcester in his account of travels in Cornwall in 1478 records that St Uny, the brother of St Herygh, was buried at the parish church of St Uny near…

201–400 · Early Church

Saint Euphebius (Ephebus, Euphemus, Efrimus) is venerated as a patron saint and bishop of Naples. Ferdinando Ughelli writes that the date of Euphebius' episcopate cannot be determined with certainty. There is no biography of Euphebius’ life.