Saints
- Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinopolis in Egypt (304)
- Martyrs Diodoros and Rodopianos, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia (285-305)
- Holy 27 Martyrs who died by fire.
- Great-martyr Xenia of Peloponnesus, Wonderworker (318)
- Saint Mamai the Katholikos of Georgia (744)
- Saint Michael of Ulompo, Georgia (9th c.)
- Saint Arsenius of Georgia (9th c.)
- Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argolis (925)
- Saint Ecumenius of Trikala, the Wonderworker (10th 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)
“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)
“Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute upon them the judgment written.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms 149:5-9.