Athanasius

“Poor little Hilary Thorpe wasn’t in church,’ she observed. ‘Such a nice child. I should have liked you to see her. But she’s quite prostrated, poor child, so Mrs Gates tells me. And you know, the village people do stare so at anybody who’s in trouble and they will want to talk and condole. They mean well, but it’s a terrible ordeal.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Nine Tailors

“the remains of Yaroslav the Wise disappeared from Kyiv in 1944, during the German occupation of the city. By some accounts, they ended up in the hands of Ukrainian Orthodox hierarchs in the United States and were spotted in Manhattan after the war. Some suspect that they may now be in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn.”
― Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

“He never flinched, he never cringed, but he died as one would wish all Englishmen to die—quietly and undramatically,”
― Martin Gilbert, The First World War: A Complete History

“Lemberg, Lwów, L’viv, 1914–1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City”
― Christoph Mick, Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, 1914 - 1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City