Illumined by a new dawn

If one compares the lives of holy men, one observes that they are all really the Life of one holy man. As the differences among the mighty ones are insignificant — all of them wear the semblance of Ivan the Terrible — so are the resemblances among the holy men essential — they all are more or less like John the Baptist. They have shown by their example how the word becomes the act, how a spiritual attitude is transformed into a spiritual life, and a moral ideal metamorphosed into a moral person