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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“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.”
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“I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.”
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