Saints
- Venerable Procopius of Decapolis, the Confessor (8th century)
- Saint Titus, presbyter of Kiev Caves Monastery (1190)
- Saint Thelalaeus of Syria, hermit (490)
- Martyr Gelasius the Actor of Heliopolis (297)
- Saint Stephen of Constantinople, monk (614)
- Saint Titus the Soldier of Kiev Caves Monastery
- Saint Pitirim of Tambov, bishop
- Martyr Nesius
- Saint Scelepius, monk
- Saint James, monk
- Saint Timoth of Caesarea, monk
- Repose of Saint Raphael of Brooklyn
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
“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)
“The Saints come,
as human as a mouth,
with a bag of God in their backs,
like a hunchback,
they come,
they come marching in.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man’s ken now are but poor- mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents.
Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance,
Ignorance bringing them nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)