“Employ your riches with kindly devotion, and thus root out evil from your hearts. All that has value in your lives you must concentrate in the persons of the poor, and so anoint your heads with devoted giving.”
Paulinus of Nola (354-431) Roman Senator whose family had great wealth. He gave it away after his conversion. In 394 he became Bishop of Nola, in Ancient Christian Writers, vol. 40 (Newman, 1975) 326.