ISBN: 9780217504843

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … mais…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...as well as his fellow religionists at first show gives an idea of the civilization and the good qualities of these infidels, all the higher that very different sentiments would be natural in the vanquished ones of the plains of Tolosa. It is impossible to call by the name of sermons the collections of rude apostrophes which the missionaries addressed to those whom they wished to convert; at this paroxysm the thirst for martyrdom becomes the madness of suicide. Is this to say that friars Bernard, Pietro, Adjutus, Accurso, and Otho have no right to the admiration and worship with which they have been surrounded? Who would dare say so? Is not devotion always blind? That a furrow should be fecund it must have blood, it must have tears, such tears as St. Augustine has called the blood of the soul. Ah, it is a great mistake to immolate oneself, for the blood of a single man will not save the world nor even a nation; but it is a still greater mistake not to immolate oneself, for then one lets others be lost, and is oneself lost first of all. I greet you, therefore, Martyrs of Morocco; you do not regret your madness, I am sure, and if ever some righteous pedant gone astray in the groves of paradise undertakes to demonstrate to you that it would have been better worth while to remain in your own country, and found a worthy family of virtnons laborers, I fancy that Miramolin, there become your best friend, will take the trouble to refute him. You were mad, but I envy such madness, for you felt that the essential thing in this world is not to serve this ideal or that one, but with all one''s soul to serve the ideal which one has chosen. When, a few months after, the story of their glorious end arrived at Assisi, Francis discerned a feeling of pride... Paul Sabatier, Books, Biography and Memoir, Life Of St. Francis Of Assisi Books>Biography and Memoir, General Books LLC<

2011, ISBN: 0217504841

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2010, ISBN: 0217504841

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2009, ISBN: 9780217504843

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