Any married couples who are saints?

St Basil the Elder and St Emmelia (parents of 10 children, 5 of whom are saints, including St Basil the Great and St Gregory of Nyssa). That's the first one that comes to mind.

Saints Eustathios and his wife, they had 2 children. They are all martyrs.
Saints Timotheos and Mavra (3rd century).
Martyrs Terentios and Neonilli who had 7 children. All the family are martyrs.
Saints Theosevios and his wife.
Saints Andronikos and Athanasia.
Saints Andrianos and Natalia.
Saints Andronikos and Iounia.
Saints Akilas and Priskila.
Saints Xenofon, his wife Maria and their 2 sons Ioannis and Arkadios.

only a very few of the married saints.
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In Russian history, Petr and Fevronia.

Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article treats it as merely a folk tale. Here it is genuine history (except for the snake bit). But the illness part is accepted as fact.

The Tale of Peter and Fevronia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If someone finds a more respectful hagiography, please post it!

Saints Joachim and Anna.

You can check out the book "Marriage as a Path to Holiness: Lives of Married Saints" I hope that helps.

Sts Elizabeth and Zacharias, parents of the Forerunner.

Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rachel.

They are all Saints, aren't they?

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silouanathonite said:

You can check out the book "Marriage as a Path to Holiness: Lives of Married Saints" I hope that helps.

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I have, and like, that book - but the problem is that the vast majority of the saints in that book are martyrs, or had one of the spouses die (so the other became a monastic), OR they lived celebate lives despite being married.

Given the sheer numbers, I have to think the vast majority of the "unknown" saints we celebrate on all-saints-day are married mothers. We have so few of them recognized.

Macarius said:

I have, and like, that book - but the problem is that the vast majority of the saints in that book are martyrs, or had one of the spouses die (so the other became a monastic), OR they lived celebate lives despite being married.

Given the sheer numbers, I have to think the vast majority of the "unknown" saints we celebrate on all-saints-day are married mothers. We have so few of them recognized.

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Indeed. There are probably countless married saints, but it's just hard, institutionally, to notice them. The odds of being noticed are much better for ascetics in monasteries, martyrs, and missionaries because their work can become visible. To be recognized as a saint in the Church, you need to not only be a saint, you need to noticed by enough people that you get venerated after your death, need to have an exemplary life that the Church itself notices, and have the kind of impact that is still noticed 100 years later. Those are high barriers to get over, but it's a lot easy to get over them if you have a team of monastic disciples devoted to your promoting your teachings after your death, or perhaps have a few churches that you started and will always remember you, or were slain in a particularly memorable way that people talk about for years. Ascetics have those, missionaries have those, and martyrs have that! The rest of us, not so much, but that doesn't mean we are any less capable of holiness. It just means nobody is going to notice.

Oh! I presume most of the myrrh-bearing women were married. I don't recall off the top of my head if all of them were, so I don't want to say all, but I know some were.

Saints Joachim and Anna.

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haha, beat me to it

Justinian and Theodora?

St John of Kronstadt was married. I am finding it difficult to gather information about his wife though except that her name was Elizabeth, and that they abstained from marital relations.

My wife is a saint for putting up with me