"The saints who from generation to generation follow by the practice of God's commandments in the steps of those saints who went before...make as it were a golden chain, each of them being one link, each joined to the preceding in faith, works and love, so as to form in the One God a single line which cannot easily be broken."
- Saint Symeon the New Theologian
Reference: Vlasto, A. P. The entry of the Slavs into Christendom: an introduction to the medieval history. London: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
