“You venerate the saints, and you take pleasure in touching their relics. But you disregard their greatest legacy, the example of a blameless life. No devotion is more pleasing to Mary than the imitation of Mary's humility. No devotion is more acceptable and proper to the saints than striving to imitate their virtues.”

The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 144.
Handbook of the Christian Soldier (1503)

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Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian 1466–1536

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