The Saint Who Lost His Head For the Truth

(Sculpture on wood, by Santiago Martinez Delgado, 1942, 

Museo Nacional de Bogota Colombia)

"Since the memory of blessed John the Baptist is not to be passed over cursorily, it is important that we should note who he was, and by whom, and for what cause, and how, and when he was slain. A just man is slain by adulterers, and the guilty passed sentence of death upon the judge. Further, the death of the Prophet was the reward of a dancing girl. Lastly (which all the barbarians even would be likely to shudder at) the order to consummate the cruelty went forth amid feasting and conviviality; and from the banquet to the prison, from the prison to the banquet, the obedient agents of this death-dealing and disgraceful act went to and fro. How great are the crimes contained in this single infamy!"

(From the book of St. Ambrose, Bishop, On Virgins)

St. Augustine of Hippo

(Icon by Richard G. Cannuli, OSA)

"Too late have I loved you, O Beauty so ancient and so new,

too late have I loved you!

Behold, you were within me, while I was outside: 

it was there that I sought you, and, deformed creature,

rushed headlong upon these things of beauty which you have made.

You were with me, but I was not with you.

They kept me far from you, those fair things which, 

if they were not in you, would not exist at all.

You have called to me, and have cried out, and have shattered my deafness.

You have blazed forth with light, and have shone upon me,

and you have put my blindness to flight!

You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you.

I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you.

You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace."

(The Confessions, Book 10, Chapter 27)

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