Every battle that the Redcrosse Knight undertakes in the story is representative of a battle the Christian individual undertakes on an authentic quest towards holiness. In light of this and the quote above, we find that fierce battles not only provide the moralizing substance for the story of the Redcrosse Knight, but fierce inner-struggle also provides the moralizing substance for every Christian's quest towards holiness. .
This fierce struggle necessarily interplays with an aspect of faithful love. Action is the manifestation of belief. For any individual to war fiercely "especially against his or her own desires and nature "an incredible investment in a belief must constitute his or her commitment to the war. In the case of struggle as difficult as self-involved spiritual warfare, the investment to justify this intense struggle can only be known as love. Furthermore, because the Christian individual is obliged to believe what cannot be seen, this is a faithful love. In Book I, faithful loves inform the story's moral body in several ways. Interestingly, one of the most (if not the most) striking examples of faithful love does not come from the Redcrosse Knight of Holiness, but rather from Una. Una's faithful and loyal love of Redcrosse and her dedication to finding him take center stage as one of the most noticeable instances of faithful love in Book I: "Through woods and wastnesse wide him daily sought - (67).
In Book I, the Legend of Holiness, having Una unremittingly and inexhaustibly search for Redcrosse "the representation of he or she who is to become holy "is an exceedingly important move for Spenser and an integral part of his theological commentary. In The Faerie Queen, Una represents Christian Truth. Her name implies unity, a lack of hypocrisy, a lack of duplicity, a vigorous integrity of constitution. Moreover, her station as Christian Truth in The Faerie Queen is clear when she is placed in contrast to Duessa "false truth.
