Saints
- Hieromartyr Simeon of Persia, bishop, and those with him: martyrs Abdechalas and Ananias, presbyters; Usthazancs, Fusicus (Pusicius), Ascitrea, and Azat the Eunuch
- Martyr Adrian of Corinth
- Saint Acacius of Melitene, bishop
- Saints Sabbarius and Zosimas of Solovki
- Pope Agapetus I of Rome
- Saint Macarios of Corinth
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
“I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“The saints with their beau-peers whole worlds outwear,
And things unseen do see, and things unheard do hear.”
—Giles Fletcher, The Younger (1585–1623)
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 2:19-22.