Saints
- Hieromartyr Dionysius of Athens, bishop, and with him martyrs Rusticus and Eleutherius (96)
- Saint John the Chozebite, Bishop of Palestine (6th century)
- Blessed Hesychius the Silent (6th century)
- Saint Dionysius of the Kiev Caves, recluse (15th century)
- Russian New martyr Agathangel, Metropolitan of Yaroslavl (1928)
- Martyr Theoctistus
- Martyr Theagenes
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 2:19-22.
“How marvellous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men’s hands; cemented with men’s honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human—for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.”
—Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl Rosebery (1847–1929)
“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)