Saints
- Venerable Ephraim the Syrian (373)
- Venerable Theodosius of Totma in Vologda, abbot (1568)
- Saint Isaac of Nineveh, bishop in Syria (7th century)
- Saint John of Recomans in Gaul
- Saint Palladius the Hermit of Antioch (4th century)
- Saint Ephraim of Novotorzhsk, abbot and wonderworker (1053)
- Saint Ephraim of Pereyaslavl, bishop (1096)
- Saint James the Ascetic of Porphyrianos
- Salome of Ujarma (4th century, Georgia)
- Saint Archillus
- Saint Luarsab (Georgia)
- Martyr Charita
- Brigid and Maura, Daughters of a Scottish Chieftain, Martyrs in Picardy on the Way to Rome;
- Canair (Kinnera), Virgin on the Isle of Inniscathy, Bantry Bay, Ireland;
New Martyrs of Russia:
- Saint Theodore, Spanish presbyter (1933)
- Saint Ignatius, bishop of Skopino
- Martyr Vladmir, presbyter and martyr Bartholomew (1938)
- Martyr Olga (1938)
- Blessed Leotius, confessor (1972)
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 2:19-22.
“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)
“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)