And, in place of a basket filled with fruits
of the earth, she had learned to bring to the oratories of the
martyrs a heart full of purer petitions, and to give all that she
could to the poor -- so that the Communion of the Lord's body
might be rightly celebrated in those places where, after the
example of his Passion, the martyrs had been sacrificed and
crowned. But yet it seems to me, O Lord my God -- and my heart
thinks of it this way in thy sight -- that my mother would
probably not have given way so easily to the rejection of this
custom if it had been forbidden by another, whom she did not love
as she did Ambrose. For, out of her concern for my salvation, she
loved him most dearly; and he loved her truly, on account of her
faithful religious life, in which she frequented the church with
good works, "fervent in spirit."[153] Thus he would, when he saw
me, often burst forth into praise of her, congratulating me that I
had such a mother -- little knowing what a son she had in me, who
was still a skeptic in all these matters and who could not
conceive that the way of life could be found out.
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