repudiated the world; to God you offered a glorious spectacle, to your brethren an example to follow. Your pious lips pronounced the name of Christ and acknowledged your unchanging faith in Him;7 your hands, which none but sacred works had occupied, were kept unsullied by any sacrilegious sacrifice; your lips, sanctified by the food of heaven, would not admit, after Our Lord’s body and blood, the contamination of idolatrous sacrifices; your heads retained their freedom from the shameful heathen veil8