"The Blood of the Poor Man is money. People have been living by it and dying of it for centuries... It was altogether necessary, then, that money should represent it: the money that one earns or steals; the money that kills or gives life like the Word, the money that is worshiped, the eucharist money which one drinks and which one eats. The traveling stipend of roving curiosity and the viaticum of death...."
Léon Bloy