not separated from a likeness of the Lord’s oblation,9 so that the one whom he imitated by faith he would also imitate in his suffering.10 And it is said that when the executioner struck Paul’s neck with his sword a stream of milk rather than blood poured forth, and wondrously at his very slaying the holy apostle stood out as resplendent with baptismal grace rather than covered with gore.11 For why is it marvelous that the one who nourishes the Church should abound in milk? He himself says to the