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:
“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)
“Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute upon them the judgment written.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms 149:5-9.
“We know of no scripture which records the pure benignity of the gods on a New England winter night. Their praises have never been sung, only their wrath deprecated. The best scripture, after all, records but a meagre faith. Its saints live reserved and austere. Let a brave, devout man spend the year in the woods of Maine or Labrador, and see if the Hebrew Scriptures speak adequately to his condition and experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)