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:
“If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“All saints revile her, and all sober men
Ruled by the God Apollo’s golden mean—”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 4:11.