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:
“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)
“I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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.