Saints
- Holy Prophet Malachi (ca.400 BC)
- Martyr Peter, in Avlona of Samaria, Palestine (311)
- Martyr Gordius, at Caesarea in Cappadocia, centurion, by the sword (ca.314)
- Venerable Meliton of Beirut (537)
- Venerable Peter of Atroa (Peter the Standard-Bearer) (837)
- Venerable Acacius the Wonderworker, of Mount Latros (Latmos), at the Megisti Lavra of the Theotokos of Myrsinon (ca.10th c.)
- Saint Thomais of Lesbos (10th c.)
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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.
“The saints with their beau-peers whole worlds outwear,
And things unseen do see, and things unheard do hear.”
—Giles Fletcher, The Younger (1585–1623)
“All saints revile her, and all sober men
Ruled by the God Apollo’s golden mean—”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)