Tarcisius

You don't go looking for a fight, but what has been entrusted to you, you will not surrender at any price. That is Tarcisius exactly: a boy in third-century Rome, an acolyte. Tradition tells it this way: he carries the Eucharist through the city to the prisoners when a mob stops him on the road and moves to seize what he is hiding. He could hand over what they demand and walk away, he doesn't: he shields the hosts with his own body and dies under the blows, a child more steadfast than many grown men. Reverence for the Eucharist to the very last, which is why, to this day, he is the patron of altar servers. And you: what would be so holy to you that you would cover it with your own life?