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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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)
“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)
“All saints revile her, and all sober men
Ruled by the God Apollo’s golden mean—”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)