*Image: The Defenders of the Eucharist by Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1625 [Museo del Prado, Madrid]. Depicted are seven saints who worked to safeguard and promote the Eucharist. On the left are Saints Ambrose, Augustine and Gregory the Great. Saint Clare of Assisi is in the center and next to her are Saints Thomas Aquinas (bareheaded), Norbert, and Jerome.
Stephen P. White is executive director of The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America and a fellow in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.