But as many as attend to piety with a whole heart, these alone are able to control the passions of the flesh,

Each of them and all of them together looking at one another, cheerful and undaunted, said, “Let us with all our hearts consecrate ourselves to God, who gave us our lives, and let us use our bodies as a bulwark for the law.

But pious reason, giving her heart a man’s courage in the very midst of her passions, strengthened her to disregard, for the time, her parental love.

O mother of the nation, vindicator of the law, and defender of piety who carried away the prize of the contest in your heart!