 | George Bancroft - 1843 - 524 pages
...~~ v~ and St. Joseph, before angels, apostles, and martyrs, before St. Ignatius and Francis Xavier, he made a vow never to decline the opportunity of martyrdom, and never to receive the death-blow but with joy. The life of a missionary on Lake Huron was simple and uniform. The earliest hours, from... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 524 pages
...— ~v~ and St. Joseph, before angels, apostles, and martyrs, before St. Ignatius and Francis Xavier, he made a vow never to decline the opportunity of martyrdom, and never to receive the death-blow but with joy. The life of a missionary on Lake Huron was simple and uniform. The earliest hours, from... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 pages
...— ^ and St. Joseph, before angels, apostles, and martyrs, before St. Ignatius and Francis Xavier, he made a vow never to decline the opportunity of martyrdom, and never to receive the death-blow but with joy. The life of a missionary on Lake Huron was simple and uniform. The earliest hours, from... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1850 - 516 pages
...Christ ~^and St. Joseph, before angels, apostles, and martyrs, before St. Ignatius and Francis Xavier, he made a vow never to decline the opportunity of martyrdom, and never to receive the death-blow but with joy. The life of a missionary on Lake Huron was simple and uniform. The earliest hours, from... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 478 pages
...in the occupations of peace. Works of love, selfmortification, prayers deep into the night — such was his life. Yet all the more increased his love...remove mountains ; and it did more, it implanted the vitalising love of Christ in the blood-thirsty heart of the savage. The great warrior Ahasistari said... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1853 - 520 pages
...*~-" and St. Joseph, before angels, apostles, and martyrs, before St. Ignatius and Francis Xavier, he made a vow never to decline the opportunity of martyrdom, and never to receive the death-blow but with joy. The life of a missionary on Lake Huron was simple and uniform. The earliest hours, from... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1855 - 908 pages
...Spirit, of the Virgin Mary, most holy mother of Christ, before angels, saints, apostles and martyrs, he made a vow never to decline the opportunity of martyrdom, and never to receive the death-blow but with joy. The Jesuit missionaries suffered terribly from the Iroquois Indians, the hereditary enemies... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - 1855 - 600 pages
...Christ, and St. Joseph, before angels, apostles, and martyrs, before St. Ignatius and Francis Xavier, he made a vow never to decline the opportunity of martyrdom, and never to receive the death-blow but with joy. (1638.) The life of a missionary on Lake Huron was simple and uniform. The earliest hours,... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1856 - 670 pages
...in the occupations of peace. Works of love, selfmortification, prayers deep into the night— such was his life. Yet all the more increased his love...life. He made a vow never to decline the opportunity ofmartyrdom, and never to receive the death-blow except with joy. Such was a faith to remove mountains... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - 766 pages
...Spirit, of the Virgin Mary, most holy mother of Christ, before angels, saints, apostles, and martyrs, he made a vow never to decline the opportunity of martyrdom, and never to receive the death-blow but with joy. The Jesuit missionaries sufiered terribly from the Iroquois Indians, the hereditary enemies... | |
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I render to thee, Jesus, my Lord, for all thy benefits ? I will accept thy cup, and invoke thy name... 
