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
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
“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)
“The countless words of saints and sages waken people from their dreams.”
—Chinese proverb.