Saints
- Hieromartyr Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina in Sicily (1st century)
- Hieromartyr Cyril of Gortyna in Crete, bishop (4th century)
- Saint Theodore of Edessa, bishop (9th century)
- Saint Patermuthius and others in Egypt (4th century)
- Saint Euthymius the Enlightener of Karelia (1435)
- Blessed Peter, Hieromartyr of Cherevkov (Vologda) (early 17th century)
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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)
“If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed,
your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed
Alleluia!”
—William Walsham How (1823–1897)