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A Church Father's theological citadel.

"A terrible rumour," wrote Jerome in 410 AD, "reaches me from the West, telling of Rome besieged, bought for gold, besieged again, life and property perishing together. My voice falters, sobs stifle the words I dictate; for she is a captive, that city which enthralled the world..."...