Thus, in this universal catastrophe, the sufferings of Christians have tended to their moral improvement, because they viewed them with eyes of faith.

Translated: The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,-although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Virtue and vice are not the same, even if they undergo the same torment.

Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.