United States or Mexico ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Carlist or Royalist, the land comes before either, say I." "For it is the land that feeds the children," added another, who carried a pair of small espradrillas in her apron pocket. Marcos went back to his father with such information as he had been able to gather. "Leon is here," he said. "He is in Retreat at the monastery of the Redemptionists, which stands half-empty on the road to Villaba.
Pope Innocent the Third warmly supported the pious design, and wrote a Latin letter recommending the Redemptionists to the protection of the Emperor of Morocco: it was addressed, Illustri Miramomolin, Regi Marochetanorum.
Much to his credit, this worthy Moslem used his vast spiritual influence for their protection, and the Dey spared their lives. At last, by the joint efforts of their friends and the Redemptionists, these poor gentlemen were ransomed and restored to their own country. Among those who endured captivity in Algiers was one whom genius has placed among the greatest men of all time.
The "Adorers of Jesus," the Redemptionists, the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine, the Brothers of the Congregation of the Holy Virgin, the Fathers of the Faith, the Order of St. Vincent de Paul are Jesuits. How far they belong to the heart and not to the head, is a detail only known to themselves.
There were undoubtedly instances, however, of unmitigated barbarity in the treatment of prisoners. For example, the Redemptionists relate the sufferings of four Knights of Malta three of them French gentlemen, and one from Lucca who were taken captive at the siege of Oran in 1706, and taken to Algiers.
Word Of The Day