Saint Jerome (quoted)
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The Ancients
Barbarian Invaders: The Sacks of Rome
Since the Danube boundary was broken, war has been waged in the very midst of the Roman Empire.
The Ancients
Barbarian Invaders: The Sacks of Rome
Who could believe this? Who could believe that Rome, built up by the conquest of the whole world, would collapse? that the city which had taken the whole world was itself taken, that the mother herself would become the tomb of her people, that today holy Bethlehem should shelter men and women of noble birth who once abounded in wealth and are now beggars.