St. Anthony, Albrecht Durer; 1519

“ABBOT MOSES was accustomed to say that, as when a general besieges a city he endeavors to prevent any provision being brought to the besieged, in order that through hunger and want the enemy may be obliged to deliver up their city, so the man that desires to overcome his carnal passions, must starve them out by fasting and abstinence.”

— Richard Challoner on the Lives of the Fathers of the Eastern Deserts

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