Simplicity: July 23
Ah, we love ourselves too much, and we have too much human prudence to relinquish any reasons of ours! What a great mistake this is! The saints did not act thus!
St. Francis Xavier was going to India with the title of Apostolic Delegate. On the ship he washed his own clothes. When someone advised him that this was detrimental to his dignity, he answered that the only thing he considered degrading and unworthy of a Christian was sin.
