Holy Mothers

This page includes Saints who were Mothers (or Grandmothers) of Saints, but also Saints who are considered among the Holy Mothers of Orthodoxy, like the Desert Mothers (recorded in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers).

Mothers of Saints:
  1. Angelina of Serbia, Mother of Saints
  2. Cleopatra, Mother of St. John in Egypt 
  3. Emilia, Mother of Saints*
  4. Eubola, Mother of St. Panteleimon
  5. Eupraxia the Elder, Mother of St. Eupraxia the Younger
  6. Evanthia, Mother of St. Eleutherios 
  7. Helen, Equal to the Apostles, Mother of St. Constantine
  8. Jerusalem the Martyr, Mother of three Martyrs 
  9. Julitta the Martyr, Mother of St. Kyrikos the child Martyr 
  10. Leonilla, Martyr, Grandmother of Saints
  11. Ludmilla, Grandmother of St. Wenceslaus 
  12. Macrina the Elder, Grandmother of Saints
  13. Maria, Mother of St. Sergius, Schema-Nun
  14. Martha, Mother of St. Simeon the Stylites (the younger).
  15. Militsa of Serbia, Mother of St. Stephen 
  16. Nonna, Mother of Sts. Gorgonia & Gregory the Theologian*
  17. Philippa, Martyr, Mother of St. Theodore of Perge
  18. Sophia and her Three Martyred Daughters
  19. Sosana (Susan), Mother of St. Nina the Enlightener of Georgia 
  20. Theodota, Mother of the Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian
  21. Theopiste, Mother of Sts. Agapios and Theopistos  
*Additional Information 
(Sts. Anthousa, Emilia, & Nonna: Mothers of the Three Holy Hierarchs):
  1. Lives of these Saints 
  2. Another page here 
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Saints (Desert Mothers) 
*Many more exist, who are not named: 
  1. Sarah of Egypt (Amma Sarah) 
  2. Syncletica of Alexandria
  3. Theodora of Alexandria 
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More Saints:
  1. Holy Mothers of Atchara, Martyrs
  2. Mother of the 9 Kherkheulidze Brothers
  3. Mothers of the Klarjeti Wilderness
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Note:
Foremost of all Mothers is the Theotokos (Mother of God) Herself. There are also the Monastic Women Saints who are called Mothers. Women Saints of the Old Covenant (Old Testament) who were direct ancestors of God incarnate, are the known as the Holy Foremothers