Saints
- Venerable John Cassian the Roman, abbot of Monastery of St Victor, Marseille
- Venerable Gherman of Dobrogea
- Saint John, called Barsanuphius, of Nitria in Egypt
- Martyr Theocteristus, abbot of Pelecete Monastery near Prusa
- Saint Cassian, recluse of the Kiev Caves Monastery
- Saint Meletius, Bishop of Kharkov and Akhtyr
- Saint Leo of Cappadocia
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“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)
“The Saints come,
as human as a mouth,
with a bag of God in their backs,
like a hunchback,
they come,
they come marching in.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)