Saints
- Holy Prophet Zachariah and Righteous Elizabeth parents of Saint John the Baptist and Forerunner
- Martyrdom of the holy passion-bearer Gleb (1015)
- Martyrs Urban, Theodore, Medimus and 77 others at Nicomedia (370)
- Martyr Obadiah, Bishop of Persia (5th century)
- Martyr Sarbelus of Edessa
- Virgin-martyr Rhais of Alexandria (308)
- Martyrs Juventinus and Maximus, soldiers at Antioch (361, 363)
- Martyr Athanasius, Abbot, of Brest (1648)
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Famous quotes containing the word saints:
“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.
“Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope,
And God Save—as you prefer—the King or Ireland.
The land of scholars and saints:
Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush,
Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints,”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“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)