St. Herman of Alaska
Put God's work before the laws of the authorities in Alaska.
St. Tikhon because he consecrated the church in Wilkeson, WA in 1902 which is our mother parish. We outgrew the church building around 1997-98 and moved to a new building, Holy Resurrection, in Tacoma, WA.
St. Lazar of Serbia.
He slowed the Ottoman Turks down while they were beginning to enter Europe. Even though he did not stand a chance of beating the Turks, which he knew, out of love for his people he fought the Turks anyway.
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St Job the Much Suffering, see your Bible. (My patron saint.)
__________________ TROPARION; TONE 4
As a faithful ascetic of Saint Herman / you flowered as a spiritual rose in Platina / As an illuminator of Orthodoxy in America / your writings bring hope throughout the world / Having taught us the True Faith / Oh Blessed Seraphim / pray to God for us.
No time for links, God willing I'll add them when I come home.
St Kyriaki (my patron Saint)
St Nectarios (link provided before)
the Apostle Andrew (significant other's patron Saint)
St Sophia & her three daughters
St Tabitha (the one raised from the dead in Acts, patron Saint of needleworkers)
St Katherine
I'm getting closer and closer to St John the Baptist, which is interesting since he's Andrew's family's patron Saint (it's in their last name)
St Seraphim is awesome too!
__________________ O Kyriaki, God's chosen one, And for Christ, wonderful martyr,
With a sword from the earth you were driven, Wedded in glory, in heaven you were
Teach us the Faith to honor, Encourage us, our life to give for her,
By your prayers, help us - Wonderful candle, amidst the candles of Paradise.
I'll just give quick reasons as to why I like a certain saint:
St Herman of Alaska: he was the first saint that I got into when I first started looking into Orthodoxy. I was amazed that I was looking at a guy from the 18th century, who could work wonders and was holy like the saints in Scripture. his life really opened my eyes to Orthodoxy's unbroken link with the Apostles. and it was awesome that his work was in America.
St Nektarios of Aegina: more or less the same as St Herman, only he carried it into the 20th century.
St Mary of Egypt: she is the blueprint for repentance. I absolutely love reading her life every year, and her struggle often forces me to look at my own life.
St Matthew the Evangelist: my patron saint.
there are so many more. others that I really like are St Silouan of Mt Athos, St John Maximovitch, St Waltheof of Northumbria, St Xenia of St Petersburg, and so many, many more.
__________________ "Everyone capable of thanksgiving is capable of joy and eternal salvation." -Fr. Alexander Schmemann
"The time of the end, though it seems to be near, we do not know. Let us then struggle while it is still day, with the time and the weapons which our All-merciful God has given us!" -Fr. Seraphim Rose
St. Catherine (my patron saint), because she was one of the first saints I learned about when I started visiting an Orthodox church and I was impressed by her life, and my middle name is a form of her name.
St. Xenia of St. Petersburg St. Olaf, because of my Norwegian background
St. Patrick, because of my Irish background
St. George
St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco
Please respond even if you don't have a perfect answer, don't lurk and not post anything
Since it looks like you've made it mandatory to reply something to this, here's a link to last year's thread of the same title (but american spelling ). I don't like repeating myself .
Since it looks like you've made it mandatory to reply something to this, here's a link to last year's thread of the same title (but american spelling ). I don't like repeating myself .
and now i shall quote myself from the above mentioned link:
Originally Posted by Julina
St. Juliana of Nicomedia (new patron, perhaps?)
St. Nicholas of Myra
St. Mary of Egypt
St. Taisia
St. Vladimir of Kiev
St. Moses the Black
Sts. Justinian and Theodora
St. Luke the Apostle
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
The Archangels (all of them)
and my patron, St. Julian of Norwich, even though she's not Orthodox
I don't have the links to their stories, but here are some of my favorites:
St. Catherine (or Katherine) of Alexandria, who is my patron saint. (I was having a hard time choosing between her and St. Photini [the woman at the well] and woke up one day sensing that she was praying for me, so I chose her).
St. John Kochurov--he served in Chicago for over 10 years and then decided to return to Russia. He was the first martyr of the Soviet era. He was shot by Bolsheviks in the town of Tsarkoe Selo (which is where the Tsar and his family lived) the day after it was taken over by the Bolsheviks. He was shot in front of his son. I have a bunch of material on him, but it is in Russian. I have to ask one of the Russian women at church if they would be willing to translate it or give me the highlights.
St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco
St. Elizabeth the New Martyr (Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia and sister of Tsarina Alexandria). After her husband was assassinated, she built a monastery and became its abbess. She took care of the poor, and had a hospital for caring for the poor.
St. Mary of Egypt--she was a courtesan who became a Christian and went into the desert and spent 47 years there. She spent over 17 years battling her passions and became extremely holy. One of the Sundays of Lent is dedicated to her, and her story is one of my favorites. She is an inspiration for those who have very strong passions because she shows that they can be overcome.
St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and Enlightener of North America. As EC said, he spent quite a few years here in America and had a real heart for missions. He headed all the Orthodox churches here in America, but had bishops of the different ethnicities to serve those churches. He consecrated the original Serbian Orthodox church in Butte, MT (Holy Trinity Orthodox Church) in 1904. He was Patriarch at the time of the Russian Revolution and was arrested. He died in 1925, under suspicious circumstances.
St. Nikolai Velimirovich of Serbia. He is the patron saint of my parish (we were the first parish in the world to have him for our patron saint). He was extremely holy and very, very bright. He could speak several languages, and spent time in the US and England, and other places. He lived in the US during WWI and came back to the US in 1947, when the Soviets took over Serbia. Prior to and during WWII, he was very vocal about his opposition to the Nazis and spent two years in Dachau (I guess he had a permanent limp after this). He was the Dean of St. Tikhon's Seminary in Pennsylvania until his death in 1956 (the year I was born). He was such a holy man and I am thankful to have him as my parish's patron saint. I always ask for his intercession right after St. Katherine's.
This is it for now. I enjoy reading the stories of the saints, so I am continually adding to my list!
__________________ Truly the penitent is not one who laments over the evil he has committed, but one who laments over all the evil that he is capable of committing. A wise landowner not only cuts the thornbush that has pricked him, but every thornbush on the field that is waiting to prick him. St. Nikolai Velimirovich (1880-1956) in Prayers by the Lake
"Thy bridal chamber, O my Saviour, do I behold all adorned, and a garment I have not that I may enter therein. Illumine the garment of my soul, O Giver of Light, and save me."
(my patron Saint) 
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