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Nativity of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist, John
John also not merely bears witness, but when men were bringing the glory to him, he declined it: for it is one thing not to affect an honor which nobody thinks of offering, and another, to reject it when all men are ready to give it, and not only to reject it, but to do so with such humility.
—St. John Chrysostom, Homily XXIX on Acts XIII