Saints
- Prophet Jeremiah (6th-7th c. b.c.)
- Saint Philosophos at Alexandria (252)
- Martyr Batas of Nisibis (Bata the Persian) (ca. 364)
- Saint Isidora the Fool-for-Christ, of Tabennisi, Egypt (ca. 365)
- New Monk-martyr Romanus of Raqqa (780)
- St. Michael, ascetic of Chalcedon (8th-9th c.)
- Saint Symeon of Syracuse (or of Mount Sinai or Trier) (1035)
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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)
“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.
“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)