Saints

“What saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?”
—St. Jerome: Letters, 22, 39.

“And if among all the saints some are more saintly than others, it is only because God dwells in them more abundantly.”
—St. Augustine: Letters 187.

Crucifixion and Saints, by Fra Angelico.
Fresco,1441-42; Convento di San Marco, Florence.