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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“Its imaginary value will increase with the years, and if he [his grandson-in-law] lives to my age, or another half century, he may see it carried in the procession of our nation’s birthday, as the relics of the saints are in those of the church.”
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“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.”
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“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)