Saints
- Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of the Prophet Samuel (1100 BC)
- Martyr Easios, tortured and beheaded (ca.284-305)
- Martyr Sositheus of Persia, by the sword (553)
- Martyr Nerses of Persia, by the sword.
- Martyr Isaac.
- Saint Bassa (Vassa), Patrician and Igumenia of a female monastery in Jerusalem, where she also founded the Monastery of St Menas, whose Abbot was the Bishop of Jamnia, Stephanos.
- Saint Sophronius the Archbishop of Cyprus (6th c.)
- Saint Stephen “the New Light” of Constantinople (912)
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
“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)
“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.
“What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)