19. For when our fathers were being led captive to Persia, the pious priests of that time took some of the fire of the altar and secretly hid it in the hollow of a dry cistern, where they took such precautions that the place was unknown to any one.





“Se você fala das próprias virtudes para se exibir ou para vã ostentação perde todo o mérito.” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina