Saints
- Martyrs Eudoxius, Romulus, Zeno, and Macarios in Armenia (311, 312)
- Saint Archipus of Hierapolis
- Martyrs Cyriacus, Faustus, Abibus, and 11 others at Alexandria (250)
- Hieromartyr Cyril, Bishop of Gortyna, Crete (4th century)
- Saint David of Hermopolis in Egypt (6th century)
- Martyrs Calodote, Macarios, Andrew, Cyriacos, Dionysios, Andrew the Soldier, Andropelagia, Thekla, Theoctistus, and Sarapabon the Senator in Egypt (256)
- St. Beya (Saint Bega?), virgin, first abbess of Copeland in Cumbria (7th century)
- New martyr Maxim Sandovitch at Lemkivshchyna of the Carpathian Mountains (1914)
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
“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.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)