Why is it that the saints of June are honored with fire?

A child is the root of the heart.

There is nothing to unify God and the soul but the Cross.

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.

When the Saints Go Marching In