“The house of His glory is Patrick’s heart and Leo’s, and, in their humble place, thine and mine,” Damaris said. “Did not our Leo say, Templum Dei sumus, si Spiritus Dei habitat in nobis? Greater is what the faithful Christian has in his heart than what he wonders at in the heavens.”
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE FALL OF AQUILEIA.
Thus the great festivals of the Church swept on, and spring had conquered winter in the natural and the Christian year.
All through those months the household on the Aventine knew that Aquileia was still holding her own, and trusted that there also the summer was beating back the winter.
Ethne remembered Orleans, with her brave garrison, and her brave aged Bishop Anianus and his victorious prayers; and Lupus with his peaceful victory over Attila at Troyes; and her hope was strong that victory must come for Aquileia also, through Aquileia for the Roman world.
Moreover, one more little volume of waxen tablets reached them from Marius, still within the unconquered city.