Fortitude
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- Fortitude, or Strength, sometimes also called Courage, is one of the Four Cardinal Virtues of the Catholic Church.
This virtue is the ability to resist fear in face of physical pain, hardship, and threat of death -- "physical courage" -- or to resist fear in the face of shame, scandal, and discouragement -- "moral courage."
Its accompanying animal is the lion. Often, Fortitude is depicted as having tamed the ferocious lion. Cf. e.g. the Tarot trump called Strength. It is sometimes seen as a depiction of the Catholic Church's triumph over sin.
- Operation Fortitude was a World War II deception operation, carried out to hide the timing, location and other details of Operation Overlord from the Germans.
- Fortitude is a discipline of physical resilience in the World of Darkness RPG setting.
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