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"Let no one be ashamed of the cross by which Christ has redeemed the world. None of us must be afraid to suffer for the sake of justice or doubt the fulfillment of the promises, for it is through toil that we come to rest and through death that we pass to life."
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Source: Pope Leo I, Jane Patricia Freeland, Agnes Josephine Conway (1996). “Sammlung”, p.47, CUA Press
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