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:
“If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“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)
“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.