Chapter III. The Holiness Of The Church. 33 In Confirmation we receive new graces and new strength to battle against the temptations of life. In the Eucharist we are fed with the living Bread which cometh down from Heaven. In Penance are washed away the stains we have contracted after Baptism. Are we called to the Sacred Ministry, or to the married state, we find in the Sacraments of Orders and Matrimony ample graces corresponding with the condition of life which we have embraced. And our last illness is consoled by Extreme Unction, wherein we receive the Divine succor necessary to fortify and purify us before departing from this world. In a word, the Church, like a watchful mother, accompanies [022] us from the cradle to the grave, supplying us at each step with the medicine of life and immortality. As the Church offers to her children the strongest motives and the most powerful means for attaining to sanctity of life, so does she reap among them the most abundant fruits of holiness. In every age and country she is the fruitful mother of saints. Our Ecclesiastical calendar is not confined to the names of the twelve Apostles. It is emblazoned with the lists of heroic Martyrs who "were stoned, and cut asunder, and put to death by the sword;"42 of innumerable Confessors and Hermits who left all things and followed Christ; of spotless virgins who preserved their chastity for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. Every day in the year is consecrated in our Martyrology to a large number of Saints. And in our own times, in every quarter of the globe and in every department of life, the Church continues to raise up Saints worthy of the primitive days of Christianity. If we seek for Apostles, we find them conspicuously among the Bishops of Germany, who are now displaying in prison and