Throughout the history of the Church, there would seem to be two distinct classes of saints. There are saints who personify active love and tenderness and there are saints who personify energetic action and the spirit of eager propagandism. We contrast St. Francis of Assisi and St. Dominic, St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Vincent of Paul and St. Ignatius, in the same way as we contrast Boussuet and Fenelon or even Raphael and Michaelangelo, Mozart and Beethoven. --Henri Joly
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