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:
“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)
“Its imaginary value will increase with the years, and if he [his grandson-in-law] lives to my age, or another half century, he may see it carried in the procession of our nation’s birthday, as the relics of the saints are in those of the church.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“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.