John 13:4-5

Preliminaries

• TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI. — Alluded to within Gregory Nazianzen's account of Basil serving the poor, imitating Christ's service

  "imitating the service of Christ, who girded himself with a linen cloth and was not at all reluctant to wash the feet of his disciples"