Saints
- Hieromartyr Therapont of Sardis, Bishop, by beheading (259)
- Martyr Julius the Veteran, at Dorostolum in Moesia (297)
- Virgin-martyr Theodora, and Martyr Didymus the Soldier, of Alexandria (304)
- Martyr Eusebiotus, by fire.
- Martyr Alypius, by stoning.
- Martyr Juliana.
- Hieromartyr Helladius, Bishop (6th-7th c.)
- Saint Michael of Parekhi, Georgia (8th-9th c.)
- Saint Basil of Khakhuli, son of King Bagrat III (11th c.)
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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)
“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)
“The saints with their beau-peers whole worlds outwear,
And things unseen do see, and things unheard do hear.”
—Giles Fletcher, The Younger (1585–1623)