Saints
- Martyrs Maurice, his son Photinus, Theodore, Philip, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea in Syria (305)
- Saint Papius of Hierapolis
- Venerable Thalassius, Limnaeus, and Barades, hermits of Syria (5th century)
- Venerable Athanasius the Confessor of Constantinople (821)
- Saint Telesphorus, Pope of Rome (137)
- Saint Peter the Stylite of Mount Athos
- Russian new martyr Theoktista Michailovna, Fool-for-Christ of Voronezh (1936)
- Russian new martyr Michael Lisicin, priest (1918)
- Martyrs Anthusa and her 12 servants
- Saint Blaise, bishop
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
“O cunning enemy, that to catch a saint,
With saints doth bait thy hook! Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“All saints revile her, and all sober men
Ruled by the God Apollo’s golden mean—”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)