Saints
- Great-martyr Euphemia the All-praised (304)
- Martyrs Victor and Sosthenes at Chalcedon (304)
- Martyr Sebastiana, disciple of Saint Paul the Apostle, martyred at Heraclea (1st century)
- Martyr Melitena of Marcianopolis (2nd century)
- Saint Dorotheus, hermit of Egypt (4th century)
- Martyr and Saint Ludmila, grandmother of Saint Wenceslas of Bohemia, the prince of Czechs (927)
- Saint Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev (1406)
- Saint Procopius, abbot, of Sázava monastery in Bohemia (1053)
- Martyrs Isaac and Joseph of Georgia (808)
- Saint Cyprian of Serbia
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
“For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed,
your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed
Alleluia!”
—William Walsham How (1823–1897)
“Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man’s ken now are but poor- mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents.
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)
“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.