So let the
name of the saints enter our homes through the naming of our children, to train
not only the child but the father, when he reflects that he is the father of
John or Elijah or James; for, if the name be given with forethought to pay
honor to those that have departed, and we grasp at our kinship with the
righteous rather than with our forebears, this too will greatly help us and our
children. Do not because it is a small thing regard it as small; its purpose is
to succour us.
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