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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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.”
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“How marvellous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men’s hands; cemented with men’s honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human—for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.”
—Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl Rosebery (1847–1929)
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—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)