A Threefold Sorrow

Triformis est sanctorum dolor, quia distant de paradiso, quia detinentur in exsilio, qui differuntur a regno. Hugo De Sancte Victore, Miscellanea, Liber V, Tit LXXXIX, De triplici sanctorum dolore Source: Migne PL 177.802a

The sorrow of the holy is threefold, that they are distant from paradise, that they are detained in exile, that they are separated from the kingdom. Hugh Of Saint Victor, Miscellanea, Book 5, from Chapter 89, On the threefold sorrow of the holy