Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROME
ST. JEROME
St. Jerome on marriage
St. Jerome87 quotes“Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.”
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