Saints
- Saint Tikhon of Amathus in Cyprus, bishop (5th century)
- Venerable Tikhon of Kaluga (1492)
- Saint Tikhon of Luchov (1503)
- Saint Tikhon of Krestogorsk in Vologda
- Martyrs Tigrius and Eutropius of Constantinople (5th century)
- Saint Mark the Just of Apollonia, nephew of the Apostle Barnabas
- Martyr Hermogenes of Tobolsk (Germogen), bishop (1918)
- Saint Moses of Optina, founder of the Optina Skete
Read more about this topic: June 16 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
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)
“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.
“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)