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Fitness Friday — Forge of Ages (Catholic) Week 8 — Christendom: The Knightly Body Oct 16 Edition The age will be defined by this: men who guard Christ and His Church rather than their own comfort — men willing to be forged into what God envisions, standing watch while others stand aside. After Persia’s school of bearing and interior command, the Forge of Ages enters the civilization that shaped the Western Christian ideal of strength: Christendom , the world of knights, monasteries, pilgrimages, and chivalric discipline. If Israel forged the prophetic body, Sparta the exterior body, Greece the proportional body, China the interior body, Rome the ordered body, Egypt the enduring body, and Persia the resolute body — Christendom forged the knightly body : strength under vow, courage under charity, discipline under obedience, and action under the Cross. Christendom understood that the body is not merely a vessel of strength but a weapon of virtue . The knight was trained to kneel befor...