He felt it as well: Heroica gathered in a single word, the acts, virtues, and processes so often ignored in daily life. They converged in this place like sharply drawn lines. They endowed it with a sense of the holy, making it a place where weakness, fear, and the abject ruin of the outside world were alleviated and washed away. A place where one could be robed in the fresh tunic of a hero.
