Saints
| Name | Place | Life | Comments | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Clitherow | born York | 1556–1586 | saint, martyr | |
| Edwin of Northumbria | 585-633 | saint, King of Northumbria | ||
| John of Beverley | Harpham and Beverley | d. 721 | bishop, founder & patron saint of Beverley | |
| John Fisher | Beverley | 1469–1535 | bishop, cardinal, saint, martyr | |
| Hilda of Whitby | 614-680 | princess, nun, nurse, founding abbess of Whitby Abbey and patron saint of Whitby | ||
| Blessed Nicholas Postgate | Egton | 1596–1679 | martyr |
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“What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)
“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)
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Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed,
your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed
Alleluia!”
—William Walsham How (1823–1897)