John Chrysostom
347 — 407 · Feast day: September 13
John Chrysostom — whose name means 'golden-mouthed' in Greek — was the Archbishop of Constantinople and the most celebrated preacher of the early Eastern Church, whose sermons drew ordinary citizens and whose unsparing criticism of Empress Eudoxia and corrupt clergy sent him into exile twice. He died on a forced march in 407, but his words outlasted every emperor who persecuted him.