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:
“If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“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)
“It is an art apart. Saint Francis of Assisi said—”All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep hotel.””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)