Ocupation: Author
Life: 347 - September 14, 407
Death: September 14
Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.
source: Saint John Chrysostom, Paul William Harkins (1963). “Baptismal Instructions”, p.185, Paulist Press
topic: Two, Shining, Widows, Luster, Alms, Almsgiving