Saints
- Saint Lydia of Thyatira (Lydia of Philippi), mentioned in Acts 16:14-15, (1st c.)
- Martyrs Thalelaeus the Unmercenary, at Anazarbus in Cilicia, and his companions Alexander and Asterius (284)
- Martyr Asclas of the Thebaid, Egypt (287)
- Sts. Zabulon and Susanna, of Cappadocia and Jerusalem (parents of St. Nina (Nino), enlightener of Georgia), (4th c.)
- Saint Mark the Hermit (Marcus Eremita) (5th c.)
- Saint Dodo, disciple of Saint David of Georgia (David Gareja monastery complex) (609)
- Holy Martyrs of Mamilla, Jerusalem (614)
- Saint Thalassius the Myrrh-gusher, of Libya (648)
- Saints John, Joseph and Nicetas, monks of Nea Moni on Chios (ca.1050)
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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)
“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)
“For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed,
your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed
Alleluia!”
—William Walsham How (1823–1897)