For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because John said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."

Matthew 14:3-4

"There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level... A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated."

- St. Alphonsus Liguori