Yes, it is you I address, you harem of the ancient enemy...screech-owls, night-owls, she-wolves, horse-leeches...whores, harlots, kissing-mouths, sloughs for fat pigs, couches for unclean spirits, nymphs, sirens, blood-sucking witches."
Cardinal Peter Damian, addressing the wives of priests, c. AD 1050.
Damian was declared a "Doctor of the Church" in 1823.
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