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:
“O cunning enemy, that to catch a saint,
With saints doth bait thy hook! Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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.
“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)