St. Jerome: Intercessory prayer

“IF the apostles and martyrs, when they were still in the body, and had still to be solicitous on their own account, prayed for others, how much more when they have won the crown, when they have gained the victory and the triumph?”

~St. Jerome (c. 340 - 420):  Contra Vigilantium, 6.

 

St. Jerome in the Wilderness, by Albrecht Dϋrer.
Oil on panel, c. 1495; National Gallery, London.