Saints
- Martyr Maximus, under Decius (250)
- Martyr Isidore of Chios (251)
- Saints Alexander, Barbaras, and Acolythus (Acolouthus), martyred at the Church of St Irene (Holy Peace), near the sea in Constantinople
- Martyrs Aristotle and Leandros
- Hieromartyr Therapont, Bishop of Cyprus (3rd c.)
- Saint Boniface of Tarsus, martyr (307)
- Venerable Serapion the Sindonite, monk of Egypt (5th c.)
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“It is an art apart. Saint Francis of Assisi said—”All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep hotel.””
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“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)