“How many generous Christians have been stripped in times of persecution of their military ranks, their civil offices, their possessions, torn from their families, thrown into exile, or handed over to the executioners? But they, far from complaining, went joyfully, following the example of the apostles, because they had been deemed worthy to suffer insults for Christ. Whatever the pretext for the persecutions you suffer, particularly if the reason for them is your faith, accept it all without hesitation, as coming from the paternal and wise hand of your heavenly Father.”
Fr. Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure, S.J. (1656).
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