Saints
- Venerable Auxentius of Bithynia (473)
- Repose of Saint Cyril, Equal-to-the-Apostles and Teacher of the Slavs (869)
- Venerable Isaac, recluse of the Kiev Caves Monastery) (1190)
- Venerable Maron of Syria, hermit (370)
- Saint Finan of Lindisfarne in Ireland, bishop (661)
- Saint Abraham of Charres in Mesopotamia, bishop
- Martyr Philemon of Gaza, bishop
- Martyr George of Mitylene, at Constantinople (1693)
- Martyr Nicolas of Corinth
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“Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope,
And God Save—as you prefer—the King or Ireland.
The land of scholars and saints:
Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush,
Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints,”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“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.
“It is an art apart. Saint Francis of Assisi said—”All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep hotel.””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)