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Quotation from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
“your religion continually grows, and shines more and more clear”
The Decameron, Day 1, Novel 2, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903)
Abraham, a Jewish merchant of Paris, returns from Rome shocked by the vices of the clergy, and argues that a Church that survives such shepherds must be upheld by the Holy Spirit; he asks to be baptized.
Citation: "your religion continually grows, and shines more and more clear" — Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Day 1, Novel 2, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903). (id the-decameron-q4)
Virtues: Faith
Portrait: A Tale from the Decameron (1916), painting by John William Waterhouse, John William Waterhouse, Public domain.
