The Christian humanist, Desiderius Erasmus, is a Northern Renaissance figure that challenges the status quo because he calls for a church reform. In an excerpt from The Praise of Folly Desiderius claims that “among them are some who make a great thing out of their squalor and beggary, who stand at the door bawling out their demands for bread -….depriving other beggars of no small share of their income. And in this manner these most [dis]agreeable fellows, with their filth, ignorance, coarseness, impudence [are supposed to] re-create for us, as they say, an image of the apostles.” In this passage, he reveals that monks have turned into beggars who use the church to gain money. In an excerpt from Enchiridion Militis Christiani, Erasmus says that