Saints
- Saint Ananias of Damascus, Bishop and one of the Seventy Apostles (1st c.)
- Martyr Domninus of Thessalonica (4th c.)
- King Mirian III of Iberia and Queen Nana of Mtskheta - Equals-of-the-Apostles, St. Abiathar of Mtskheta, and St. Sidonia, disciple of St. Nina (4th c.)
- Venerable Romanos the Melodist, "Sweet-singer" (ca.556)
- Monk-Martyrs Michael, Abbot of Zovia Monastery near Sebaste, and 36 fathers with him (ca.790)
- St. Melchizedek, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia (ca.1030)
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
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“I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.”
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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)