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Anthony of Padua

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Sicut turris defendit castrum sic humilitas cordis defendit castitatem corporis a iaculis fornicationis.
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Just as a tower defends a fortress, so humility of heart defends bodily chastity from the darts of fornication.
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Sermon for the Second Sunday of Lent (Part II: De Iesu Christi transfiguratione, par. 8)

 
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