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:
“The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 4:11.
“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)
“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,”
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