And royal-hearted Athanase,
With Paul’s own mantel blessed.
RELICS OF SAINTS
By John Henry Newman
“He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; for all live unto Him.”
“The Fathers are in dust, yet live to God:”
So says the Truth; as if the motionless clay
Still held the seeds of life beneath the sod,
Smouldering and straggling till the judgment day.
And hence we learn with reverence to esteem