Saints
- Saint Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium
- Virgin Anthusa of Constantinople
- Saint Athanasia of Aegina, abbess
- Martyrs Menas, David, and John of Palestine
- Saint Isaac of Monteluco, Bishop of Spoleto
- Hieromartyr Zeno of Verona, bishop
- Martyr Acacius of Kapsokalyvia Skete on Mount Athos
- Saint Basil of Ryazan, bishop
- Martyrs Demas, Prorion, and those with them
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
“Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man’s ken now are but poor- mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents.
Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance,
Ignorance bringing them nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)
“Its imaginary value will increase with the years, and if he [his grandson-in-law] lives to my age, or another half century, he may see it carried in the procession of our nation’s birthday, as the relics of the saints are in those of the church.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The Saints come,
as human as a mouth,
with a bag of God in their backs,
like a hunchback,
they come,
they come marching in.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)