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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“Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man’s ken now are but poor- mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents.
Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance,
Ignorance bringing them nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)
“The Saints come,
as human as a mouth,
with a bag of God in their backs,
like a hunchback,
they come,
they come marching in.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)